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JavaScript User Authentication With Express and Mongo User Registration Using Nodemon While Developing an Express App

Posted by shenal pelpola
shenal pelpola
9,419 Points

I am getting an unhandled error when starting the app and my register route does not work.

events.js:174 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^

Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::3000 at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1279:14) at listenInCluster (net.js:1327:12) at Server.listen (net.js:1414:7) at Function.listen (D:\Documents data drive\Full stack javascript\JavaScript-user-auth-express (1)\JavaScript-user-auth-express\S2V1\node_modules\express\lib\application.js:618:24) at Object.<anonymous> (D:\Documents data drive\Full stack javascript\JavaScript-user-auth-express (1)\JavaScript-user-auth-express\S2V1\app.js:38:5) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:776:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:787:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3) Emitted 'error' event at: at emitErrorNT (net.js:1306:8) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19) at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:832:11) at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19) at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! treehouse-express-auth@1.0.0 start: node ./app npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the treehouse-express-auth@1.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\ASUS\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2019-07-24T06_48_05_237Z-debug.log

1 Answer

Mohamed Monir
Mohamed Monir
22,362 Points
Mohamed Monir
Mohamed Monir
22,362 Points

ok you need to edit package.json and add after author "main": "app.js" ,

and your project will work