Features

This extension allows you to easily kill active network processes on a specific port.

• Kill all interesting active network processes (such as 8000, 4200, 3000 for NodeJS and Angular) automatically
• Kill a specific network process by specifying a port number (Ctrl + Del, on mac Cmd + Del)
• Show and kill specific active network processes manually (Ctrl + Shift + Del, on mac Cmd + Shift + Del).

Killing a specific active network process

Show and kill active network processes

Usage

Killing a specific active network process

1. Open up the prompt (F1 \ Ctrl+Shift+P \ CMD+Shift+P) and select: "Task Kill: Kill an active network task (by port number)" or simply hit Ctrl + Del (numpad_decimal).
2. Type in the port number of the process you want to kill.
3. Hit enter.

Kill all interesting active network processes

1. Open up the prompt (F1 \ Ctrl+Shift+P \ CMD+Shift+P) and select: "Task Kill: Kill all active network tasks".

Show all active network processes

1. Open up the prompt (F1 \ Ctrl+Shift+P \ CMD+Shift+P) and select: "Task Kill: Show active network tasks" or simply hit Ctl + Shift + Del (numpad_decimal).
2. Select the process you want to kill and hit the Kill task button associated with it.

Extension Settings

Configurations

By default, the configured interesting ports are the following:

"taskkill.interestingPorts": [3000, 4200, 8000]

Interesting ports are shown at the top of the task-kill table and are killed automatically using the "Kill all active network tasks" command. You can simply copy the code above and edit the ports to your needs.

Keybindings

By default this extension comes with following keybindings:

• Ctrl + Del - Kill a task by it's port number.
• Ctrl + Shift + Del - Show active network tasks and kill them manually.

You can simply edit your own keybindings in the keybindings.json file:

({
  "command": "extension.killActiveNetworkTask",
  "key": "ctrl+numpad_decimal",
  "mac": "cmd+numpad_decimal"
},
{
  "command": "extension.showActiveNetworkTasks",
  "key": "ctrl+delete ctrl+shift",
  "mac": "cmd+delete cmd+shift"
})

Known Issues

• This extension was tested and found to be working on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. It should work on most Linux distributions.