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Reputation: 351

node.js SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

I have downloaded and installed node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/. I want to run a js file:

console.log('hello');

I run node app.js

And get a syntax error:

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
[90m    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:895:18)[39m
[90m    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)[39m
[90m    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)[39m
[90m    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)[39m
[90m    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)[39m
[90m    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11[39m

My OS Info:

Version: 10.0.18362
BuildNumber: 18362
OSArchitecture: 32-bit

node.js v12.13.1

Upvotes: 9

Views: 22077

Answers (4)

CustomDiscord Bot
CustomDiscord Bot

Reputation: 1

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if you take a loot at the picture. you can see th error is on R21. You are trying to close the if from r14 with a ) instead of a }

Upvotes: 0

Marinos TBH
Marinos TBH

Reputation: 55

Had the same issue for hours, echo const http=require('http') >> index.js. Solved

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 351

The problem was that I created the file by redirecting output from echo command in powershell. It had UTF-16 LE encoding, should be UTF-8

Upvotes: 11

Patrick de Kievit
Patrick de Kievit

Reputation: 296

Did you copy some unicode characters from word or something?

try retyping the console.log('hello') Something like this has happened to me before, when I copied some code from a word document.

Upvotes: 13

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