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Nagaraj sk
Nagaraj sk

Reputation: 85

How to solve this => port 8081 already in use error in React native in windows

error listen eaddrinuse: address already in use :::8081
Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::8081

at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1372:16)  
at listenInCluster (node:net:1420:12)  
at Server.listen (node:net:1508:7)  
at D:\RND\Mobile\node_modules\metro\src\index.js:164:16  
at new Promise (<anonymous>)  
at Object.exports.runServer (D:\RND\Mobile\node_modules\metro\src\index.js:163:10)  
at async Object.runServer [as func] (D:\RND\Mobile\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-plugin-metro\build\commands\start\runServer.js:121:26)
at async Command.handleAction (D:\RND\Mobile\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:192:9)

info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2410

Answers (1)

R4ncid
R4ncid

Reputation: 7129

You have an active process on that port

You should either change the port or find and kill the active process

netstat -aon | find "8081"

and when you find the PID of the process you can do

taskkill /F /PID <PID>

Upvotes: 1

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