Ports and what they mean as a process:

Sometimes working on react app, you run into issues like:

Something is already running on port 3000.

To handle this:

For Linux/Mac OS search (sudo) run this in the terminal:

$ lsof -i tcp:3000
$ kill -9 PID

On Windows:

netstat -ano | findstr :3000
tskill typeyourPIDhere 
change tskill for taskkill in git bash

Source: referring to this SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45130296