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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?

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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
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You could explain what the error message means, and how your solution solves that... –  ericbn 10 hours ago

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