node app.js does not execute (no errors)

can you post your code? It's impossible to tell what goes wrong without seeing the actual code.

Yes, of course. Here is the code:

var http = require("http"); var userName = "owacea";

function printMessage(userName, badgeCount, points) { var message = userName + " has " + badgeCount + " total badge(s) and " + points + "points in JavaScript"; console.log(message); }

var req = http.get("http://teamtreehouse.com/" + userName + ".json", function(resp){ console.dir(resp); });

this works perfectly fine on my local, just not in the treehouse workspace.

So this is not really an issue for me now. This prompted me to get setup locally so I can just work from there going forward.