How to Exit from a Node.js Program: A Guide to Gracefully Terminate Your Application
In this technical blog post, we will explore different ways to terminate a Node.js application. While pressing ctrl-C in the console can close a program, we are more interested in discussing programmatically exiting. Let’s start with the most drastic method, which should be avoided. The process core module provides a method called process.exit() that allows you to programmatically exit from a Node.js program. When this line is executed, the process is immediately forced to terminate....