[Solved] error: [meta/js] Could not compile client-side scripts! Unexpected character
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When I'm running NodeBB, an error prompted me this:
"error: [meta/js] Could not compile client-side scripts! Unexpected character ''Anyone who encountered this kind of error?
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Have you added any custom js files to your nodebb install?
The error you're getting means that your js files have an additional character that isn't needed. Possibly a comma at the end of a function or something like that.
It should only be in one file, you can try running
./nodebb dev, that might allow you to see a better idea of where the error in the code is.
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@kimmanuel Let us know if you get it solved.
Or if you spot any other errors you don't recognise, post them here and we'll take a look.
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Bumped into the same issue recently. Turns out, that Mac had created '.DS_Store ' file inside client's scripts folder and /meta/js.js is looping through all files upon launching the nodebb server. Including .DS_Store. And that causes [meta/js] Could not compile client-side scripts! Unexpected character.
Solution was: search for and remove all '.DS_Store' files everywhere from /public folder.
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@invision Sounds like we need to filter those files.
