SyntaxError expected expression got

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I got SyntaxError  expected expression  got   lt   error in the console when i m executing following node code  var express   require  express    var app   express    app all      function  req  res      res sendFile   dirname   index html       lt   Where my ng-view is located       var server   app listen 3000  function        var host   server address   address   var port   server address   port      Error    I m using Angular Js and it s folder structure like bellow     What s I   m missing here

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This problem occurs when your are including file with wrong path and server gives some 404 error in loading file

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I got this type question on Django  and My issue is forget to add static to the  lt script gt  tag   Such as in my template    lt script  type  text javascript   src  css layer js  gt  lt  script gt    I should add the static to it like this    lt script type  text javascript  src     static  css layer js       gt  lt  script gt

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The main idea is that somehow HTML has been returned instead of Javascript   The reason may be    wrong paths assets itself   It may be caused by wrong assets precompilation  In my case  I caught this error because of wrong encoding   When I opened my application js I saw application error Encoding  UndefinedConversionError at  assets application js  There was full backtrace of error formatted as HTML instead of Javasript   Make sure that assets had been successfully precompiled

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Try this  usually works for me   app set  appPath    public    app use express static   dirname    public      app route          get function req  res        res sendfile app get  appPath       index html              Where the directory public contains my index html and references all my angular files in the folder bower components   The express static portion I believe serves the static files correctly   js and css files as referenced by your index html    Judging by your code  you will probably need to use this line instead   app use express static   dirname        as it seems all your JS files  index html and your JS server file are in the same directory   I think what  T J  Crowder was trying to say was use app route to send different files other than index html  as just using index html will have your program just look for  html files and cause the JS error   Hope this works

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I had this same error when I migrated a Wordpress site to another server  The URL in the header for my js scripts was still pointing to the old server and domain name    Once I updated the domain name  the error went away

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May be this helps someone  The error I was getting was     SyntaxError  expected expression  got   lt     What I did clicked on view source in chrome and there I found this error     Notice   Undefined variable  string in   D  Projects demo ge php on line 66   The issue was this snippet of code    string       lt ---- this should be declared outside the loop  while  row   mysql fetch assoc  result                  string       id    row  menu id      pId    row  parent id      name     row  menu name                  which fixed the problem

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I had same error  And in my case  REASON  There was restriction to that resources on server and server was sending login page instead of javascript pages    SOLUTION  give access to user for resourses or remove restriction at all

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You can also get this error message when you place an inline  tag in your html but make the  common for me  typo that you forget to add the slash to the closing-script tag like this    lt script gt    alert  I ran      lt script gt   lt  -- OOPS opened script tag again instead of closing it -- gt    The JS interpreter tries to  execute  the tag  which looks like an expression beginning with a less-than sign  hence the error  SyntaxError  expected expression  got   lt

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This should work for you  If you are using SPA   app use      express static path join   dirname   your folder         Send all other requests to the SPA app get       req  res    gt        res sendFile path join   dirname   your folder index html

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I solved this problem with my authenticated ASPNET application by adding WebResource axd as a location on the web config so that it s authorized for anonymous users    lt location path  WebResource axd  gt     lt system web gt       lt authorization gt         lt allow users      gt       lt  authorization gt     lt  system web gt   lt  location gt

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Just simply add   app use express static   dirname    app       where   app  is the directory where your index html resides or your Webapp

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I had a similar problem using Angular js  i had a rewrite all to index html in my  htaccess  The solution was to add the correct path slashes in     Each situation is unique  but hope this helps someone

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This code   app all      function  req  res      res sendFile   dirname   index html       lt   Where my ng-view is located         tells Express that no matter what the browser requests  your server should return index html  So when the browser requests JavaScript files like jquery-x y z main js or angular min js  your server is returning the contents of index html  which start with  lt  DOCTYPE html gt   which causes the JavaScript error   Your code inside the callback should be looking at the request to determine which file to send back  and or you should be using a different path pattern with app all  See the routing guide for details

[javascript] SyntaxError: expected expression, got '<'

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