JavaScript - Gulp/Browserify: SyntaxError: Unexpected token

Question

For whatever reason, my browserify and gulp stopped working. For example, here's my gulp js script to bundle my javascript.

gulp.task('js', function() {
    gulp.src('src/js/*.js')
        .pipe(plumber())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('js'));
    return browserify('./src/js/main', { debug: true })
    .bundle()
    .pipe(source('bundle.js'))
/*    .pipe(streamify(uglify()))*/
    .pipe(gulp.dest('.'))
    .pipe(notify({ message: 'JavaScript has been bundled with Browserify!'}));
    // .pipe(livereload());
});

and here is main.js:

var ajaxChng = require('./ajax-changelog');
ajaxChng();

and inside src/js/ajax-changelog.js is this:

module.exports = {
    console.log('Hello World');
};

But when I do gulp js, I get:

λ gulp js
[19:11:50] Using gulpfile c:\wamp\www\osrsmap\gulpfile.js
[19:11:50] Starting 'js'...

events.js:85
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token

... what am I doing wrong?

What is the rest of the error? The stack trace is the most important part. — loganfsmyth
– loganfsmyth, Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 23:15
Noone noticed that the 'helpful' error context is completely wrong? That is the entire message, there's no stack to be had and the code snippet it always shows is events.js:<some line>\n throw err; // unhandled 'error' event\n ^\n SyntaxError: Unexpected token no matter what the actual source code is. — Jamie Pate
– Jamie Pate, Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 22:28

a-d · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-16 23:17:44Z

10

Wait... this is not valid javascript:

module.exports = {
    console.log('Hello World');
};

Maybe you meant this?

module.exports = function () {
    console.log('Hello World');
};

answered Mar 16, 2015 at 23:17

a-d

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Lim H. Over a year ago

I hate when this happens!

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