How to stop app that node.js express ‘npm start’

Question

Yes, npm provides for a stop script too:

npm help npm-scripts

prestop, stop, poststop: Run by the npm stop command.

Set one of the above in your package.json, and then use npm stop

npm help npm-stop

You can make this really simple if you set in app.js,

process.title = myApp;

And, then in scripts.json,

"scripts": {
    "start": "app.js"
    , "stop": "pkill --signal SIGINT myApp"
}

That said, if this was me, I’d be using pm2 or something the automatically handled this on the basis of a git push.