The server never closes, even after ^C and closing the terminal

[nebrelbug]

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Node Version: 8.9.0
• NPM Version: 6.3.0
• webpack Version: 4.17.1
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.1.7

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Code

  // webpack.config.js
  ...
 devServer: {
    contentBase: path.join(__dirname, '')
 },

Expected Behavior

When I press ^C, the server stops

Actual Behavior

The server keeps on running! I'm on Git Bash, and even when I close the terminal, the server is still running. I ran it on localhost:9000, localhost:9003, and localhost:8081, and I can access the server on all 3 of them, even though I tried to end localhost:9000 and localhost:9003

For Bugs; How can we reproduce the behavior?

Try and close the server in Git Bash

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

[alexander-akait]

@nebrelbug do you use webpack-dev-server or webpack-serve?

[nebrelbug]

@evilebottnawi I use webpack-dev-server

[alexander-akait]

@nebrelbug please create minimum reproducible test repo, thanks

[nebrelbug]

I think it would work on any repo with Git Bash, probably

[aprilmintacpineda]

I'm experiencing this same error, but in my case the process exits after a while after ctrl+c.

This is the output I get after CTRL+C:

I know that the dev-server is still running because when I run the server again, it would complain that the port is already occupied and I have to manually kill that process.

This is how I run the dev server: babel-node node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --config webpack/start.js

[alexander-akait]

@aprilmintacpineda Looks problem in babel-node here

[aprilmintacpineda]

I see, after doing only webpack-dev-server --config webpack/start.js it exited with no error. But then would need to refactor my codes for the build script to work without babel-node. Any suggestion?

[alexander-akait]

@aprilmintacpineda better create issue in babel-node, we just listen process on CTRL+C and looks babel don't pass this to webpack-dev-server process

[ninofiliu]

I've got more or less the same behavior:

1. webpack-dev-server --open
2. Everything works fine when dev-serving the project
3. Hit Ctrl+C
4. localhost:8080 doesn't serve anything anymore, however the node task launched by the dev server is still running (30% of the CPU power + ~400MB of RAM)

OS: Windows
Config: HMR enabled

[alexander-akait]

Close in favor #1479 (comment)