SyntaxError: Unexpected token ´╗┐on server launch about json-server HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi,

Tried it on Windows 8.1 with json-server 0.5.4 with this:

{
    "posts": [
        {"id": 1, "title": "foo"}
    ]
}

And I'm not able to reproduce.

Could you please run the following script and tell me if you have any errors?

var fs = require('fs')
JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('mockAPI.json'))

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I think you nailed it, but I still don't understand what's happening. I am successfully running grunt and a load of tasks associated with it. I got the same error when executing your code snippet as I got before. I put your code in a file called test.js and executed from CMD.

C:\path\to\webroot>node test.js

undefined:1
´╗┐{
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ´╗┐
    at Object.parse (native)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\path\to\webroot\test.j
s:2:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

This seems to be a problem with my Node installation rather than json-server... but if you have any ideas I would be ever so grateful to hear them.

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Hmm, personally I'd check the .json file. Maybe it's a file encoding issue.

To check that, you could create a JSON file using this code:

// create.js
var fs = require('fs')
fs.writeFileSync('test.json', JSON.stringify({
  issues: [
    { id: 1, title: 'foo' }
  ]
}))

And try to consume it with the other code to see if there's still an error.

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You were absolutely right! There was something invisibly wrong with that file. The encoding looked alright (UTF-8). No matter if I deleted everything in it and typed it back manually, it still crashed. I had to delete the file and create a new, seemingly identical, one, but then it finally worked. I am very grateful for your help, and sorry for wasting your time with such nonsense. I'm really looking forward to using the software now! :-)

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No worries :)
Really happy that I could help.

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