How to stop node-red on Mac OS

[Trevor Muraro]

I have just installed node-red on my Mac with "sudo npm install -g node-red".  After installing, I can start node-red from the command line with "node-red", and node-red shows up at localhost:1880 just like it should.  What I don't know is how to stop it.

The documentation on nodered.org says how to start node-red, but not how to stop it.  The "upgrading" page says to stop node-red before upgrading, so it's clearly possible.  I've tried "node-red-stop" from the Raspberry Pi documentation, but neither that nor "node-red-start" are recognized as commands.  I can stop node-red with Ctrl+C in the Terminal window I started node-red in, but I sincerely hope that's not the only way to do it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Nick O'Leary]

Hi Trevor,

Installing the node-red package from npm gives you the `node-red` command which directly runs the node process. The only way to stop it is to ctrl-c in the terminal you ran it in.

The documentation on running node-red goes on to describe how to run node-red automatically (https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/running), using the pm2 node runner.

On the Raspberry Pi, the upgrade script we provide installs NR as a systemd service. In that instance we also provide the node-red-start/stop commands to wrap the corresponding systemd commands.

Nick

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[Trevor Muraro]

Hi Nick,

I see.  I just got node-red up and running with pm2.  Thanks!

-Trevor

On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:38:47 AM UTC-8, Nick O'Leary wrote:

Hi Trevor,

Installing the node-red package from npm gives you the `node-red` command which directly runs the node process. The only way to stop it is to ctrl-c in the terminal you ran it in.

The documentation on running node-red goes on to describe how to run node-red automatically (https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/running), using the pm2 node runner.

On the Raspberry Pi, the upgrade script we provide installs NR as a systemd service. In that instance we also provide the node-red-start/stop commands to wrap the corresponding systemd commands.

Nick

On 4 December 2017 at 09:30, Trevor Muraro <trevor...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have just installed node-red on my Mac with "sudo npm install -g node-red".  After installing, I can start node-red from the command line with "node-red", and node-red shows up at localhost:1880 just like it should.  What I don't know is how to stop it.

The documentation on nodered.org says how to start node-red, but not how to stop it.  The "upgrading" page says to stop node-red before upgrading, so it's clearly possible.  I've tried "node-red-stop" from the Raspberry Pi documentation, but neither that nor "node-red-start" are recognized as commands.  I can stop node-red with Ctrl+C in the Terminal window I started node-red in, but I sincerely hope that's not the only way to do it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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[Zenofmud]

Trevor.

I use an automator task to start/stop Node-Red on my mac. I got it from this link https://ptarmiganlabs.com/blog/2015/02/15/start-node-red-on-os-x-login/

and it has been working great.

Paul