How do I kill the process currently using a port on localhost in Windows?

Question

How can I remove the current process/application which is already assigned to a port?

For example: localhost:8080

Answer 1

I know that is really old question, but found pretty easy to remember, fast command to kill app that are using port.

Requirements: npm@5.2.0^ version

npx kill-port 8080

You can also read more about kill-port here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kill-port