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Reputation: 63

Trying to follow a sample and I can't figure out why there are errors

Trying to follow a sample and I can't figure out why there are errors. Any help...it's probably a formatting thing:

import http from 'http';
import express from 'express';
// Express app setup
const app = express();
const server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(3000);
server.on('listening', () => {
  console.log('Server is listening on port: 3000');
  app.get('*', (req, res) => {
    res.end('Hello Express');
  });};

My two error messages are:

  1. Parsing error: Unexpected token, expected ","

    9 | app.get('*', (req, res) => { 10 | res.end('Hello Express');

    11 | });}; | ^

  2. ')' expected.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Antiokus
Antiokus

Reputation: 544

There’s a few issues here:

  1. The import syntax is not valid in nodejs unless you have a transpiler to intercept it.

  2. Your setup with express is just wrong. You’re defining your route handlers after you’ve started the server.

Here’s what you want - with valid common js syntax 

const http = require('http')
const app = require('express')()

app.get('*', (req, res) => res.send(' Hello Express'))

const server = http.createServer(app)
server.listen(3000, () => console.log('Server is listening on port: 3000'))

Upvotes: 1

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