Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::5858 is there a way to skip this port and start listinng on next avaialbe port ?

[PManager1]

[mleanos]

It's possible, but I don't see a huge advantage of doing this. This seems like it would only be useful in development environment. In my experience, most staging/production environments will expect a specific port to run the application in, or the environment itself (not the application) will assign a port when the app starts; this is the reason for process.env.PORT in the various env configurations.

If you wanted to achieve this, you could abstract the assignment of the port, in your express configuration, out into a recursive function that checks the availability of a port number, and returns the first available. You might want to have a max amount of tries for this, and/or base this off of a range of available port numbers. I believe express has a way for you to check if a port is in use already.

[keithics]

im running mutiple meansjs app in dev and I always got this error

[vaucouleur]

@keithics Simply assign a different port number to each of your meanjs instance, the first paragraph in @mleanos answer above; many different way to do it; the simplest, arguably, is to mention the port number as an environment variable in your command line (when starting the instance).