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Reputation: 1108

SyntaxError: Unexpected token v in JSON at position 0

I was about to use live-server and I got this error when I followed the instructions to set up ~/.live-server.json

undefined:1
var liveServer = require("live-server");
^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token v in JSON at position 0
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/live-server/live-server.js:20:20)

Does this mean var cannot be contained in a JSON file?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3863

Answers (2)

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 669

No, you cannot use var in a JSON file and you can't call any function (like require). JSON is just a format to represent data.

I just looked into the documentation very briefly but as I understand it you can define options in this JSON file that are then used by live-server. In this case you don't have to specify them in your js file. But in every case you have to require and start live-server inside of a JavaScript file.

Upvotes: 0

Krzysztof Sztompka
Krzysztof Sztompka

Reputation: 7204

var liveServer = require("live-server");

It means that you required npm module live-server. You don't assign json to var liveServer.

And when you require this module it loads and parse json file ~/.live-server.json

Your error means that your json file isn't in correct json format - you have bug there.

Please paste your json to any json validator (for example http://jsonlint.com/) and fix issues.

Upvotes: 1

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