Timeline for How to exit in Node.js

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Jun 26, 2020 at 0:13	comment	added	dturvene		This should be the accepted answer. It explains `process.exit()`, `process.exitCode`, signal handling and (what I want) `throw new Error` to exit.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:50	comment	added	supercat		If one has a bunch of code which is supposed to execute continuously until a shutdown request is received, is there any nice convention for registering events that would allow subscriptions to be abandoned in response to a shutdown request, without that requiring the code using the events or the code requesting the shutdown have specific knowledge about each other? Unfortunately, the only way I can think of to kinda-sorta implement that would be to require that any piece of code that registers an event also create a wrapper which includes a closure to unregister it.
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May 12, 2017 at 12:39	comment	added	AvadData		Amazing response. `Process.exit()` looks like major overkill for most applications. I was looking for an equivalent to php's die() function... more like: `throw new Error('die msg')`
Oct 29, 2016 at 17:12	review	Late answers
Oct 29, 2016 at 17:17
Oct 29, 2016 at 16:51	history	answered	teq	CC BY-SA 3.0