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John Butcher
John Butcher
9,683 Points
Posted by John Butcher
John Butcher
9,683 Points

Module parse failed: [...]/index.js Unexpected token (5:7)

On Redux initial setup - index.js, I can't seem to npm start - webpack logs an error in the console when it hits the JSX.

Error: Module parse failed: [...]/index.js Unexpected token (5:7) You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type. SyntaxError: Unexpected token (5:7)

index.js file:

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import Scoreboard from './Scoreboard';

render(<Scoreboard />, document.getElementById('root'));

2 Answers

Ignacio Rocha
Ignacio Rocha
7,462 Points
Ignacio Rocha
Ignacio Rocha
7,462 Points

I think the error is caused because the import is wrong. You have

import { render } from 'react-dom';

render(//your code);

the correct way is like this, because render() is a specific method of the ReactDOM package.

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

ReactDOM.render(// code);
John Butcher
John Butcher
9,683 Points
John Butcher
John Butcher
9,683 Points

Hi Ignacio Rocha ,

Thanks for your reply!

import {render} from 'react-dom';

render(// code);

is the same as:

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

ReactDOM.render(// code);

The first example is just using ES6 destructuring syntax - you can see an example of this in Guil's code within the tutorial at 00:45 here; https://teamtreehouse.com/library/redux-initial-setup-indexjs

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get this working, so will skip to the next section :(