Cannot get http-server to run with nodejs command line from angular-seed github project

Question

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?

Brad Barber · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06 01:42:07Z

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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

answered Aug 6, 2014 at 1:42

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ericbn Over a year ago

You could explain what the error message means, and how your solution solves that...

Thaldin Over a year ago

I'm also trying to use the NodeJS plugin in IntelliJ (I should have added that, appologies) which calls Node to do things. As I said, npm start does work and that wasn't my question. My question was why when I try it with Node directly does it fail, because this is how the NodeJS plugin in IntelliJ works.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:58:00Z

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Try -

Working dir: /path/to/your/package.json

JavaScript file: /path/to/global/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js

Application parameters: run start

From here

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:58

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