Terminate local payload process?

itsjxcklast year

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  thisisnotchrislast year

  You could use a process manager like PM2 that handles starting / stopping

  
  

  
  

  Not sure if it is an option but that's a common pattern

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  itsjxcklast year

  By local payload instance I mean payload in local mode, as in just initialise the package to be able to find/update things in the db without having to start the full server and make api requests

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  thisisnotchrislast year

  How are you calling the script with an external handler

  
  

  
  

  you should be able to also send commands to the machine too right?

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  itsjxcklast year

  It's during a Redwood data migration

  
  

  
  

  So the script just exports a function which Redwood runs to migrate data in our database (separate to the Payload database)

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  thisisnotchrislast year

  im confused about "terminating the payload instance"

  
  

  
  

  you mean the express server?

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  itsjxcklast year

  No the payload package, even in local mode without Express, seems to just run forever

  
  

  
  

  It's similar to this

  https://github.com/payloadcms/nextjs-custom-server/blob/master/seed/index.js
  

  
  

  They solve it by using

  process.exit(0)
  

  
  

  Even though it has no express server it still lives on like it does