⚡️ Node Killer

⚡️ Node Killer — a sleek macOS menubar app that keeps an eye on your Node.js, Vite, and Bun dev servers and lets you kill them with a click.

🖥️ Currently available only for Apple Silicon (arm64).

✨ Features

• 📊 Live counter in the status bar — instantly shows how many dev servers (Node.js, Vite, Bun) are listening (active: 4).
• 🖱️ Interactive tray menu — lists every active process with its type, PID, and ports when available.
• 🔪 One-click kill — terminate individual Node/Vite/Bun processes with success/error notifications.
• 💣 Kill all — wipe out every running process of the enabled types, with confirmation and summary.
• 🔄 Smart auto-refresh — updates every 5 seconds plus a manual Refresh option.
• 🧰 Customizable preferences — adjust refresh rate, auto-launch, status-bar display mode, and which process types to monitor.
• ✅ Process type toggles — enable or disable Node.js, Vite, and Bun scanning directly from Preferences.

🚀 Getting Started

For development:

npm install
npm run dev

Node Killer lives in the macOS menu bar near the clock.

📥 Download

You can grab the latest pre-built binary from the Releases page.

👉 Direct download for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4):
Node-Killer-0.2.0-arm64.dmg

🖥️ Currently only Apple Silicon (arm64) builds are provided.
macOS will ask for confirmation the first time you run the app.

🎥 Demo

📦 Build

Create a .app and .dmg bundle with electron-builder:

npm run build

Artifacts are written to dist/.

⚠️ Limitations

• Processes are detected via lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN parsing.
• Containers (Docker) usually appear as docker-proxy, so underlying Node processes may not be visible.

📸 Roadmap

• Alternate scan mode for Node processes that are not listening on sockets.
• Basic Linux support.

🧪 Manual Smoke Test

1. Start one server for each runtime you use (next dev, vite dev, bun dev, etc.).
2. Run npm run dev for Node Killer.
3. Confirm the menu shows each process with the correct label (node/vite/bun), ports, and that disabling a type in Preferences hides its entries.
4. Terminate a single process, then try Kill all and review the notifications.

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests and feedback are welcome! Feel free to open an issue.

📝 License

MIT