Address already in use

[babakfp]

ncaughtException Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::3000

it's 2025, you should do better than this!

[dcousens]

@babakfp what do you think should happen?

[babakfp]

it should just work. try a port, doesn't work, switch to another, try it, works. this is a normal thing that other tools do from a long time ago. there were tools that refused to implement, later they come to same concolusion.
I wanted to try keystonejs, throw it away because of this stupid issue. when a tool can't do basic things right, i don't have high expectation that it's going to do complicated thigns right.

[dcousens]

there were tools that refused to implement, later they come to same conclusion

I am inclined to think this is poor behaviour, can you cite any examples and their reasoning? I don't want a tool to iterate ports, I have an intended port, it should only use that.

[dcousens]

I assume this discussion is only for keystone dev too, the requested behaviour would be a security issue otherwise.