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NarayaN Yaduvanshi
NarayaN Yaduvanshi

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Fastify port is in use but in reality it is not

#fastify #server #javascript

Problem

This happened to me when I was trying to run my fasify server on local port defined in .env file.

Fastify error :  Port is already in use
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I noticed that port 3000 was available and no application was running on it. I even ran the command

sudo pkill node
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to kill all the instances of running node and free all the ports.
This did not help

Solution

Upon closer look I noticed that, all the values loaded from .env file are in type String and thats what caused the issue. Fastify expect the port in Number/Integer type.
So simple solution to this problem is to conver or parse the string into number before passing it to fastify.

fastify.start(ParseInt(process.env.PORT))
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