语法错误：意外的令牌ILLEGAL节点

Question

I'm trying to start a localhost server via nodejs and mySql database. I'm getting an error which says:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:452:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at /Users/Liran/Desktop/nodejs/server.js:34:13
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object. (/Users/Liran/Desktop/nodejs/server.js:32:7)

this error is caused by running the following javascript code:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var mysql = require('mysql')
var fs = require('fs'),
path = require('path');

var ipaddress = '127.0.0.1';
var port = 8080;

// ----------- MySQL Connection ------
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'localhost',
    user: 'root',
    password: '1',
});
connection.connect();


// --------- Set upload directory  -------

app.configure(function(){
    app.use(express.methodOverride());
    app.use(express.bodyParser({ keepExtensions: true, uploadDir: '../public/images/' }));

});
app.fs = fs;

// ------------ ROUTES  ---------------
var RouteDir = 'routes',
files = fs.readdirSync(RouteDir);

files.forEach(function (file) {
    var filePath = path.resolve('./', RouteDir, file),
    route = require(filePath);
    route.init(app, connection);
});



// ----------- Run Server ----------------
app.listen(port, ipaddress, function() 
{
    console.log('%s: Node server started on %s:%d ...',
                Date(Date.now() ), ipaddress, port);
});`enter code here`

basically all I'm doing is to set the server ip & port and connect it to the mysql db.. please tell me what am I doing wrong and why is that error appears? and if there are any code changes that I should make in order to make a good localhost server via nodejs and mysql please let me know :) Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

One of the files you are require() ing in your files.forEach() callback has an illegal token. You may want to insert a debug statement before the require() so you can determine which file is having the problem. From there, you can use a linter like jshint to find the exact location of the illegal token in that file.

Answer 2

In your code

// ----------- MySQL Connection ------ var connection = mysql.createConnection({ host: 'localhost', user: 'root', password: '1', }); connection.connect();

you have an extra coma next to the password.

Thats the only actual error I see