SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

Verify that you have the latest version of Node.js installed (or, at least 13.2.0+). Then do one of the following, as described in the documentation: Option 1 In the nearest parent package.json file, add the top-level “type” field with a value of “module”. This will ensure that all .js and .mjs files are interpreted as ES modules. You can interpret individual files as CommonJS by using the .cjs extension. … Read more

How Do I Uninstall Yarn

How can I uninstall yarn? I’ve used it for a react-native project and now whenever I move the code out of index.ios.js or index.android.js it throws an error so I’d like to just use npm but whenever I initialize a react-native project it defaults to yarn. I tried npm uninstall yarn but that didn’t work. Thanks.

What is process.env.PORT in Node.js?

In many environments (e.g. Heroku), and as a convention, you can set the environment variable PORT to tell your web server what port to listen on. So process.env.PORT || 3000 means: whatever is in the environment variable PORT, or 3000 if there’s nothing there. So you pass that to app.listen, or to app.set(‘port’, …), and that makes your server able to … Read more

(node:63208) DeprecationWarning: collection.ensureIndex is deprecated. Use createIndexes instead

The issue is that mongoose still uses collection.ensureIndex and should be updated by them in the near future. To get rid of the message you can downgrade by using version 5.2.8 in your package.json (and delete any caches, last resort is to uninstall it the install it with npm install [email protected]): “mongoose”: “^5.2.8” EDIT: As of this edit, Mongoose … Read more

First Heroku deploy failed `error code=H10`

Found solution for me here: Heroku + node.js error (Web process failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch) In my case my app crashed because I was hard setting the PORT, instead of using the port that heroku dinamicaly sets, which can be accessed with process.env.PORT