JScript compilation error nodejs command line tool

Question

So I'm trying to build a command line tool using node.js but am running into problems trying to run the tool. Here's the simple code that I have.

src/main.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
'use strict';

(function main() {
    console.log('Hello World!');
})();

and in my packages.json I have this added

"bin": {
    "test": "./src/main.js"
 }

But when I try and execute test from the command line I get a Microsoft JScript compilation error at line 1 char 1 invalid character code 800A03F6.

Any ideas what I might be missing? Thanks :)

How do you run this ? Seems like Windows Scripting Host processes your code, not Node — Marged
– Marged, Commented May 24, 2018 at 2:11

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

4

Found the information from this tutorial

npm install -g

test

Hello, world!

Did you try to install it before running it?

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answered May 24, 2018 at 2:13

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Oh nice thanks! Using npm link during development instead of npm install -g will be great too

Do mark it as answer if it correctly answered your question yea, cheers

Doesn't work for me.