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JavaScript Building Applications with React and Redux Getting Started with Redux Redux Initial Setup - index.js

Posted by leo3
leo3
10,422 Points

Solution to the "Error: listen EADDRINUSE 127.0.0.1:8080"

Hello,

Just sharing a solution to the errors below, when you run "npm start" and a port is already in use:

Error: listen EADDRINUSE 127.0.0.1:8080" (or EADDRINUSE 127.0.0.1:3000)

1) Type "netstat -aon" on Command Prompt

2) Find the relative PID number to 127.0.0.1:8080 (or 3000)

3) Run "taskkill /f /pid pidnumber"

4) Run "npm start" again

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points

Sure, but before you do a brute-force kill of a running task, you may want to determine what that task is and perhaps why it was running.

tasklist /FI "PID eq pidnumber"

That command will show you the name of the running program with that pidnumber.

Simon Olsen
Simon Olsen
3,597 Points
Simon Olsen
Simon Olsen
3,597 Points

leo3 your solution didn't work for me on my Mac.

I had a bit of a google around and found a snippet to add to the webpack.config.js file which will run the dev environment on a different port to 8080.

After the module: block, you need to add

devServer: {
    historyApiFallback: true,
    contentBase: "./",
    port: 3000
  }

So your full webpack.config.js file should look like this...

module.exports = {
  devtool: "inline-sourcemap",
  entry: "./index.js",
  output: {
    filename: "bundle.js"
  },
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loaders: ["react-hot", "babel"]
      }
    ]
  },
  devServer: {
    historyApiFallback: true,
    contentBase: "./",
    port: 3000
  }
};

Hope this helps someone out.