I am attempting to get a better understanding of nodejs so that I can get an IntelliJ plugin working.
I have installed NodeJS on my Windows 7 machine and verified that it works from the command line (node, then did a 2+2 it answered 4).
I then git cloned the AngularJS Seed project (https://github.com/angular/angular-seed) and proceeded to get that running (npm install, npm start) and all was good.
But then I tried using node to directly kick off the http-server module with the following command line from the AngularJS source directory.
node node_modules\.bin\http-server -a localhost -p 8000
and
node node_modules\.bin\http-server.cmd -a localhost -p 8000
Both commands give me the following error -
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:906:3
Am I missing something easy here since I am new to NodeJS or am I doing something wrong?
If you want to run http-server directly, you should install it globally:
npm install http-server -g
Then you can run the following:
http-server -a localhost -p 8000
In run configurations, please use node_modules\http-server\lib\http-server.js under JavaScript_file instead of using .\node_modules\.bin\http-server