Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Tell us what’s happening:
Attempting to do this locally, I have written the code as specified in the instructions however keep getting this error

Your code so far
Emitted ‘error’ event on Server instance at:
at emitErrorNT (net.js:1345:8)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
code: ‘EADDRINUSE’,
errno: -48,
syscall: ‘listen’,
address: ‘::’,
port: 3000
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! fcc-learn-node-with-express@0.1.0 start: node server.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the fcc-learn-node-with-express@0.1.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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hello and welcome to fcc forum :slight_smile:

  • port is already in used!!

happy coding :slight_smile:

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The reason you are getting this error is due the port number 3000 is already in used.

  • You can use a different port and try again for e.g. 4000 or any other.
  • You can kill the previous process that is running on this port 3000.
    here’s the stackoverflow link to do so.
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Thank you that was the issue it looks like.

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Thank you, that was the issue.

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