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SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token (express)

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How to solve this error??

vagrant@med:~/modal.dev$ npm run dev
> modaljs@1.0.0 dev /home/vagrant/modal.dev
> node build/dev-server.js

/home/vagrant/modal.dev/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:370
  return

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
    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.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vagrant/modal.dev/node_modules/express/lib/express.js:17:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)

npm ERR! Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "dev"
npm ERR! node v6.9.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.8
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! modaljs@1.0.0 dev: `node build/dev-server.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the modaljs@1.0.0 dev script 'node build/dev-server.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the modaljs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node build/dev-server.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs modaljs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls modaljs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/vagrant/modal.dev/npm-debug.log

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5

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pwichmanncommented, Nov 17, 2017

Arrived here by accident. I think you copied code from the MacOS Notes and your quotes were transformed into weird quotes instead of the only two allowed types:

What you have is:

1reaction

jamsheedpkcommented, Feb 1, 2019

Issue Fixed screenshot from 2019-02-01 16-15-12

Change the encoding of your file (UTF-8 )

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