Node process not stopped

[jameskleeh]

I've configured a task to start a server to serve static assets:

task serve(type: NpmTask) {
    group = 'application'
    description = 'Serve the client side application'
    args = ['run', 'start']
}

When I stop the gradle task, the node executable keeps running. What are my options to ensure the process gets shut down?

[jameskleeh]

@srs Are you still interested in maintaining this plugin?

[jameskleeh]

I noticed someone had a similar problem and fixed it on a fork: laurimak@2505514

srs/gradle-gulp-plugin#1

[srs]

Hi.

Yes, still maintaining it since I use it in a lot of projects. It would be great to have a pull-request of this fix ;-)

[jameskleeh]

@srs The code seems to have changed significantly since that fork was made. Could you take a look and attempt to apply it?

[srs]

Yes, will do.

[kucharzyk]

I have the same issues while running angular-cli via YarnTask from gradle

After killing gradle with CTRL+C angular-cli is still running

[kucharzyk]

I've found temporary solution.

Disabling gradle deamon fix this issue.

Just create following gradle.properties file in project directory

org.gradle.daemon=false

With deamon disabled everything works allright.
With deamon enabled some node tasks are still alive after terminating gradle task

[jinwangchina]

hi @kucharzyk, seems your solution doesn't work to me, I use gradle to start webpack-dev-server, after stop the gradle task in Intellij, the webpack-dev-server is still working.

[drakenfly]

I have the same problem... A solution would be very great @srs :/

[slively]

I was having the same issue from a create-react-app project when trying to run the webpack dev server through yarn.

task start(type: YarnTask) {
  args = ['start']
}

What I saw was gradle would start a yarn process using project.exec and yarn would then start a node process (node script/start.js). When Gradle exited, the yarn process would exit, but the subsequent node process would stay around. I worked around this by just calling node directly using NodeTask.

task start(type: NodeTask) {
  script = file('scripts/start.js')
}

Now gradle only spawns a single node process and when gradle exits the node process exits (after a handful of seconds). This is certainly still an issue, but I've found this to be a very acceptable work around.