What is the propper way to close/stop a vite preview server, started programatically with "preview"?

[alexbjorlig]

I currently have:

import {  preview } from 'vite';

const previewServer = await preview();
// Do stuff
previewServer.httpServer.close();

But I'm not sure it's enough to free up the port after use. Also, the close() method does is not a promise to my surprise?

Thanks

[patak-dev]

@alexbjorlig the Preview server doesn't have a close function. I think you may need to do something like we do here: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/src/node/server/index.ts#L885. Would you create a feature request with more information about your use case so we can properly justify the feature? I think the preview server should have a preview.close() method equivalent to the dev server.

[alexbjorlig]

Sure, I added a feature request here