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Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,368 Pointsserver setup from nodejs.org not working in console
when a pasted a code from the nodejs.org for setting up a server it does not work in workspaces enviroment, therefore I cannot carry on with this course. Can someone help with this please. Maybe instead of the code from nodejs.org i can use different one or it needs to be modify somehow?
3 Answers
Travis Alstrand
Treehouse Project ReviewerHi Piotr Manczak ,
When I opened up a Workspace for this video this code was already within my app.js file, was it not in yours?
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (request, response) {
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
setInterval(function(){
response.write(new Date() + "\n");
}, 1000);
response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(3000);
console.log('Server running at http://<workspace-url>/');
This worked just fine for me. When it's running, after running node app.js in the console, you can click the preview (eye) button up top and select port:3000.
When I copy/pasted the current code on the node.js website I indeed got an error regarding the import line they provide now.
I would just use the code above that was provided to continue along with the course and you should be just fine 👍
Travis Alstrand
Treehouse Project ReviewerIf you're still experiencing problems, can you provide a snapshot link to your workspace along with the commands you're trying? That will help us understand how to get you going again 😃
Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,368 PointsI did not get it when I started, very strange.
Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,368 PointsDear Travis Thank you for your help I will do as instructed.
Travis Alstrand
Treehouse Project ReviewerStrange that it did not appear in yours, sorry about that.
I'm glad this helped out though! 😃
Guillem Sevilla
10,056 PointsGuillem Sevilla
10,056 PointsThe problem is that the course uses an outdated version of Node.js, v8.17.0 (you can check this by typing
node -vin the console), while the code on the nodejs.org website is likely adapted to the current version of Node.js (v22.14.0).To follow the Treehouse course, you should do as Travis suggests. That said, it would be great if the course were updated, as I'm not sure whether that code still works with the latest version of Node.js.