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Failed to compile, unexpected character '#'

See original GitHub issue

I’ve been trying to get this to work for a while now but, unfortunately, I haven’t had the luck. Firstly, the directory structure looks like this:

├── docs
│   └── res.mdx
├── node_modules
│   ├── bloomer
│   ├── classnames
│   └── tslib
├── package.json
└── package-lock.json

I cd to this directory and run mdx-go docs and get the following error:

➜ mdx-go docs 
[mdx-go] starting dev server...
✔ success [mdx-go] compiled in 1s 848ms


 ERROR  Failed to compile with 1 errors                                 19:30:57

 error  in /home/karan/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.4/lib/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/keyboard-shortcuts.md

Module parse failed: Unexpected character '#' (2:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
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> ### Keyboard Shortcuts
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| - `/`: Show directory listing

 @ /home/karan/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.4/lib/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/routes.js 11:0-56 44:26-43
 @ /home/karan/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.4/lib/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/App.js
 @ /home/karan/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.4/lib/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/index.js
 @ multi webpack-hot-middleware/client /home/karan/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.4/lib/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/index.js

✖ ｢wdm｣: 
ERROR in ./client/keyboard-shortcuts.md 2:0
Module parse failed: Unexpected character '#' (2:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
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> ### Keyboard Shortcuts
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| - `/`: Show directory listing
 @ ./client/routes.js 11:0-56 44:26-43
 @ ./client/App.js
 @ ./client/index.js
 @ multi webpack-hot-middleware/client ./client/index.js
[mdx-go] listening on http://localhost:8080
^C

Any idea why it’s breaking due to a file that isn’t even present in the directory? Is there something wrong on my end that I need to change? Please do let me know.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

jxnblkcommented, Oct 9, 2018

Thanks! That’s definitely a bug. I think I have a fix in #20 if you wanna try installing the latest version

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talentlessguycommented, May 28, 2020

The issue keeps happening:

 WAIT  Compiling...                             3:36:46 PM

✔ success [mdx-go] compiled in 195ms


 ERROR  Failed to compile with 1 errors         3:36:47 PM

 error  in /home/v1rtl/.local/pnpm/pnpm-global/3/node_modules/.pnpm/registry.npmjs.org/mdx-go/2.0.0-32/node_modules/mdx-go/lib/client/keyboard-shortcuts.md

Module parse failed: Unexpected character '#' (2:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type, currently no loaders are configured to process this file. See https://webpack.js.org/concepts#loaders
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> ### Keyboard Shortcuts
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| - `/`: Show directory listing