Unexpected Identifier Syntax Error

[WattsC-90]

on windows, running the db.json file from the readme.md. Trying to run json-server and just get unexpected identifier errors.

I made sure that the file was utf-8 as that seemed to be feedback from someone else in a previous issue but that didnt sort it.

Any ideas what's going on here?

> json-server --watch db.json SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier at Object.exports.createScript (vm.js:24:10) at REPLServer.defaultEval (repl.js:235:25) at bound (domain.js:287:14) at REPLServer.runBound [as eval] (domain.js:300:12) at REPLServer.<anonymous> (repl.js:431:12) at emitOne (events.js:82:20) at REPLServer.emit (events.js:169:7) at REPLServer.Interface._onLine (readline.js:211:10) at REPLServer.Interface._line (readline.js:550:8) at REPLServer.Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:827:14)

db.json file:
{ "posts": [ { "id": 1, "title": "json-server", "author": "typicode" } ], "comments": [ { "id": 1, "body": "some comment", "postId": 1 } ], "profile": { "name": "typicode" } }

[typicode]

Hi @WattsC-90,

It's a bit hard to see where it failed since there's no mention of a particular line in a node module or json-server in the output.

Can you try json-server http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/db? Do you get an error?

[WattsC-90]

sorry to say, exactly the same error:
> json-server http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/db SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier at Object.exports.createScript (vm.js:24:10) at REPLServer.defaultEval (repl.js:235:25) at bound (domain.js:287:14) at REPLServer.runBound [as eval] (domain.js:300:12) at REPLServer.<anonymous> (repl.js:431:12) at emitOne (events.js:82:20) at REPLServer.emit (events.js:169:7) at REPLServer.Interface._onLine (readline.js:211:10) at REPLServer.Interface._line (readline.js:550:8) at REPLServer.Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:827:14)

[typicode]

Oh, I think I see what's the issue.
I think you're running json-server this way:

C:\Users\...\> node
> json-server http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/db

Try running json-server directly without calling node REPL

C:\Users\...\> json-server --watch db.json

[WattsC-90]

I was indeed.. but now get:
'json-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

i did run (with no errors):
npm install -g json-server

[WattsC-90]

ok, now that one seems to be a "me" problem, so let me track it down and get back to you..

[WattsC-90]

Ok, this was down to my system path being set correctly (embarassing)
make sure: C:\Users\<|ProfileName|>\AppData\Roaming\npm is in the System Variables path, not user variables path.

[typicode]

Congrats :)