How to restart a Express/Koa server?

[corysimmons]

I'm trying to watch all my src files and rerun Koa when a file is changed, but keep hitting Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3000.

"chokidar": "chokidar '**/*.js' -c 'node dist/server'"

Any ideas how to force Koa to die before running node dist/server?

[heikkipora]

I'm closing this as it's more of a Koa question than chokidar-cli (and besides, it's one year old..)

[corysimmons]

Not a Koa question. More of a question with killing child processes.

https://github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/chokidar-cli/pull/29 fixes it and should be reviewed/merged.

[zanona]

I believe this should be reopened and #29 given due attention?

[corysimmons]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar-cli-infanticide is just #29 merged and worked well for me.