I am trying to manage my node package dependencies. I'd like to be able to install all the required dependencies by running a command, and from what I have read, one way to achieve this is using a package.json
file and running npm install
. So my JSON file looks like this:
{
"name": "Name-Of-The-Thing",
"description": "The Thing's Name",
"author": "The Dude <the.dude@dudethinking.com>",
"dependencies": {
"mocha":">= 1.12.0",
"mocha-phantomjs":">= 3.1.0",
"chai":">= 1.7.2",
"phantomjs":">= 1.9.1"
}
}
However npm install
reports the following error:
npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token ?
npm ERR! File: C:\Path\To\The\Thing\package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "test"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Path\To\The\Thing
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.66
npm ERR! file C:\Path\To\The\Thing\package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Path\To\The\Thing\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Anyone know why?