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Unexpected character error

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Hello,

I’m trying to add this plugin to my codebase, but a error keeps popping up. Have you had this issue before?

Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected character '�' while parsing file: /Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/iconv/build/Release/iconv.node (line: 1, col: 0, pos: 0)

Error
    at new JS_Parse_Error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1545:18)
    at js_error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1553:11)
    at parse_error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1677:9)
    at Object.next_token [as input] (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1949:9)
    at next (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2078:25)
    at Object.parse (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2064:15)
    at addFile (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:71:33)
    at /Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:80:17
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.exports.minify (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:78:26)
    at Stream.ready (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglifyify/index.js:71:19)
    at Stream.<anonymous> (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/uglifyify/index.js:97:12)
    at _end (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/through/index.js:65:9)
    at Stream.stream.end (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/through/index.js:74:5)
    at DestroyableTransform.onend (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/through2/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:495:10)
    at DestroyableTransform.g (events.js:291:16)
    at emitNone (events.js:91:20)
    at DestroyableTransform.emit (events.js:185:7)
    at endReadableNT (/Users/matiss/personal/property-crawler/list-crawler/node_modules/through2/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:865:12)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
    at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:122:9)
    at module.exports.logError.errorHandlingError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/Error.js:82:11)
    at BbPromise.resolve.then.catch.e (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless:20:15)
    at tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:510:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:567:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:612:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:687:18)
    at Async._drainQueue (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:138:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:148:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:574:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:554:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:533:5)

Here’s my package.json dependencies

{
  "dependencies": {
    "aws-sdk": "^2.7.6",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
    "crawler": "git://github.com/bda-research/node-crawler.git#1.0.0-beta",
    "q": "^1.4.1",
    "serverless-plugin-optimize": "git://github.com/FidelLimited/serverless-plugin-optimize.git#master"
  },
  "devDependencies": {}
}

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:13 (5 by maintainers)

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dionysiocommented, Nov 30, 2016

This one still happens to me with the sharp module. I have tried setting ignore to the .node file but it did not help. Setting minify to false changes the output to:

Unexpected character ''

with no additional traceback info - I have tried setting SLS_DEBUG and debug as well and nothing more shows up.

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goncalonevescommented, Nov 28, 2016

@dwolfand Check if the problem is due to global was not being set in babelify. PR #14 solved this and I just published it now to npm. NPM update to version rc7.

@cryptoquick I will be including browserify options extensions array that you will be able to add other extensions besides .js and .json.