Re: simple node.js example from developer works

Dont use CCSID 37 for IFS files. Use 1252, 1208 or 819.

37 is EBCDIC. Node is ASCII.




On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Gerald Magnuson <
gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am attempting to create a hello world app from this developerworks
article:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-native-js-app-ibmi-with-
nodejs/

step 3 values:
$

node -v

v6.11.5
$

npm -v

3.10.10
$

my js file: called sample.js, CCSID = 37
************Beginning of data**************
var http = require('http');
var ip = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" ;
var port = 53591 ;
var webserver = http.createServer((req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World with node\n');
});
webserver.listen(port, ip);
console.log('Server running at http://' + ip + ':' + port);
************End of Data********************

when I tried to run node:

node '/home/gmagnuson/sample.js'

/home/gmagnuson/sample.js:1

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) {
���@����@~@�������M}����}]^
^



SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

at createScript (vm.js:56:10)

at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)

at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)

at Module.load (module.js:487:32)

at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)

at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)

at run (bootstrap_node.js:383:7)

at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

$
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