Kill Play Framework process

When we run application in DEV mode (using command activator run) the process normally will be killed when terminal is closed. It's pretty easy since PID is started/closed automatically and therefore we do not care about it at all.

Once we start application in PROD mode there is a file RUNNING_PID is created (./target/universal/stage/RUNNING_PID). There is a command (since version 2.4) in activator (stopProd) which will close PID

$ activator stopProd

Alternatively you can just kill process 'manually'

$ kill $(cat target/universal/stage/RUNNING_PID)