Keeps track of a server‘s open sockets so they can be destroyed at a moment’s notice. This way, the server connection can be killed very fast.
npm install killable
Using express: (‘server’ in the example is just an http.server
, so other frameworks or pure Node should work just as well.)
var killable = require('killable'); var app = require('express')(); var server; app.route('/', function (req, res, next) { res.send('Server is going down NOW!'); server.kill(function () { //the server is down when this is called. That won't take long. }); }); var server = app.listen(8080); killable(server);
The killable
module is callable. When you call it on a Node http.Server
object, it will add a server.kill()
method on it. It returns the server object.
server.kill([callback])
closes all open sockets and calls server.close()
, to which the callback
is passed on.
Inspired by: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14636625
ISC