I started setting up my first node app but it prompt me this
./app.js: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
'/app.js: line 1: `var http = require("http");
my code is
var http = require("http");
http.createServer(function (req,res){
res.writeHead(200, {'content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8080, 'localhost');
console.log("server runnig at 8080");
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Hey friend,
This code seems to work fine for me when pasted into a node console. Can you double check app.js on the live system and make sure that you didn’t accidentally add a backtick somewhere on line 1?
If you pasted the code into the file, make sure you didn’t use our web-based console to do it. Pasting code will work better over SSH.
Jarland
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