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The Landscape of Malicious Open Source Packages: 2025 Mid‑Year Threat Report
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crossplatform-killport
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💀 Kill the process running on a given port in any operating system.
Command line program to kill the process running on a given port in any operating system.
Unlike many of the other programs out there that do this, this one works in Windows, Linux, and Mac, it is very easily installed in any OS using npm
because it is written in Node.js, and it is actively maintained by a team of people rather than being just some guy's project from several years ago that may or may not work.
First make sure Node.js is installed on your system.
Then, to install crossplatform-killport
to your system:
npm i -g crossplatform-killport
Kill whatever process is using port 8080:
killport 8080
Windows users may need to run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
on their terminal to permit the script to run. See docs from Microsoft for more information.
Use via npx
(this will allow you to use it without installing it to your system by downloading it from npm
temporarily):
npx crossplatform-killport 8080
Use from within a Node.js project's root directory:
node_modules/.bin/killport 8080
Use from within Node.js code:
const { spawnSync, } = require('child_process')
spawnSync('node_modules/.bin/killport', ['8080', '--silent'], { env: process.env, shell: false, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] })
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💀 Kill the process running on a given port in any operating system.
We found that crossplatform-killport demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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