Syntaxerror: Invalid Or Unexpected Token At Createscript (vm.js:80:10)

I've just arted to learn node, and when executing a very simple app from a powershell terminal: node app.js I am getting the following exception: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpecte

Solution 1:

It looks like there is some encoding issue with the file that you're trying to run with Node. Sometimes, files created with some command line utility does some encoding issues with the file. So, I would suggest not to use them to create file. Just create file with Right-Click > New File > app.js and replace your old file with this app.js. And try running node app.js.

Solution 2:

I had a similar issue. My problem was that I copy-pasted code from a website and the '"' were wrongly formatted by my editor. So, I replaced all those quotations with " or ', whichever is applicable.

That solved my issue.

Solution 3:

I faced smilier issue.

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at createScript(vm.js:80:10)

But in my case, i was using nvm and forgot to switch the node version to latest version. After switching to latest version it works and did not get this exception

Solution 4:

I got this same error when trying to run a program I compiled as an executable. Instead of just running ./program I was trying to run it with node. So I did node ./program.

Trying to run the executable (compiled with pkg for linux) with node gave me pretty much the exact same error you got here.

Solution 5:

I also had the same issue. And indeed it was an encoding problem. Our js file was parsing another file which had been copied/pasted from a pdf. Turned out there was a corrupted space character in the middle of the file.

Removing it solved my issue.