Node.js: how to exit from the Node console

How to exit from Node command line

So you loaded the Node console by typing node at the command line, played around with it and want to get back to your OS command line. Press CTRL+C (even on a Mac, especially on a Mac!), or just call the process.exit() method to exit from the Node console.

$ node
> 9+23
32
> process.exit()
$ 

Same thing if you started up a basic Node http listener routine from the command line.

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\nodeStuff>node myfirstt.js
^C
C:\Users\yourname\Documents\nodeStuff>

There you go!