node.js SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

5
votes

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

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javascriptnode.jssyntax-error
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2 Answers

7
votes

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.

5
votes

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