Node JS ctrl + C doesn't stop server (after starting server with "npm start")

I was able to fix this by switching to [nodemon][1] to run the server.

```
npm install --save-dev nodemon
```

**package.json**:

```
"scripts": {
"start": "nodemon app"
},
```

I was trying to get `json-server` to quit a custom server script, but it always left a child process running on Windows. It seems to be a specific problem running `express` via `npm` on Windows. If you run the server directly via the `c:>node server.js` then it seems to quit correctly.


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Inside package.json under scripts I had this line `react-scripts start&`. Notice it ends with an `&` which would send the process to the background and `ctrl+c` will not work. Somehow trying to bring this to the foreground with `fg` also did not work. Solved the problem by removing the `&`.

Ctrl + C does not kill the server. The resolution to the issue was using following code snippet in server.js:

process.on('SIGINT', function() {
console.log( "\nGracefully shutting down from SIGINT (Ctrl-C)" );
// some other closing procedures go here
process.exit(0);
});

This worked for me.

You can also check for other solutions mentioned at [Graceful shutdown in NodeJS][1]



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if you use **Node.js Exec** Extention to run your project from **f8**,
you can use also **f9** to cancel running..