Kill process by process id only if it is a node process

Question

I am killing a process by process id, which works, however, if the process id gets killed somehow and a new process starts taking that process id it will be killed.

So, my thought is to only kill a process if it is a node process which sounds less destructive than just killing any process by process id.

The problem is, node doesn't seem to have a way to get process information by process id. So, is there a way I can get this process information so when I do a kill I only kill node processes?

let settings = require('./settings.json')
let pid = settings.pid
os.platform() == 'win32' ? process.kill(pid) : process.kill(-pid)

Answer 1

You could execute the ps command from nodejs and check that the command column is "node":

ps -p <PID> 

you will need to parse the result of that and check what the CMD column is if it's "node" then that should mean that it's a nodejs process.