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JavaScript

Posted by jbiscornet
jbiscornet
22,547 Points

problem parsing package.json

I keep getting this error when I try to install a new npm package, but I don't know what the error would be. Does anyone see anything wrong with the json here?

{ "name": "flashcards", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "", "main": "index.js", "scripts": { "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" }, "keywords": [], "author": "", "license": "ISC", "dependencies": { "express": "^4.15.2", "pug": "^2.0.0-rc.4" }

JSONLint tells me this but I don't really understand the error. Error: Parse error on line 15: ...g": "^2.0.0-rc.4" } ----------------------^ Expecting '}', ',', got 'EOF'

Thanks, J

3 Answers

Tom Gooding
Tom Gooding
16,735 Points

Hi J,

You're missing a closing curly bracket at the end of the file.

{
    "name": "flashcards", 
    "version": "1.0.0", 
    "description": "", 
    "main": "index.js", 
    "scripts" : 
        { 
        "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" 
        }, 
    "keywords": [], 
    "author": "", 
    "license": "ISC", 
    "dependencies": 
        { 
        "express": "^4.15.2", 
        "pug": "^2.0.0-rc.4" 
    }
}
jbiscornet
jbiscornet
22,547 Points
jbiscornet
jbiscornet
22,547 Points

Thanks for the help Tom it's always just a dumb error that stumps me.

Iagor Moraes
Iagor Moraes
18,678 Points
Iagor Moraes
Iagor Moraes
18,678 Points

Hi, package is a JSON file extension, you must obey the syntax, closing all curly braces and put comma to every end value of properties.