Help Setting Up The API

Heya friends. I was hoping someone could help me with some issues I’m running into setting up the api.

So I’ve installed NodeJS and Python and I think we’re all good on that front. Downloaded the github folder too - also all fine. But where I run into issues is the 3rd step.

When choosing the directory, I’m going for “C:\gfapi-master”, correct? There’s also a “C:\gfapi-master\docs\gfapi” but choosing that doesn’t fix the issues I’m having it. Then we’ve got the two npm commands. I think “npm install” worked on its first attempt, because I’ve got a “node modules” folder added. As for the npm docs command, I don’t think it’s successfully run. Trying to redo the commands, these are my two error logs

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe’,
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js’,
1 verbose cli ‘install’ ]
2 info using npm@5.6.0
3 info using node@v8.11.1
4 verbose npm-session a80216fd78abbd7c
5 silly install runPreinstallTopLevelLifecycles
6 silly install loadCurrentTree
7 silly install readLocalPackageData
8 verbose stack Error: Failed to parse json
8 verbose stack Unexpected string in JSON at position 706 while parsing ‘{
8 verbose stack “name”: “gfapi”,
8 verbose stack “version”: "0.1.1’
8 verbose stack at parseError (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:436:11)
8 verbose stack at parseJson (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:104:26)
8 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:51:5
8 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
8 verbose stack at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:511:3)
9 verbose cwd C:\gfapi-master
10 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17134
11 verbose argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “install”
12 verbose node v8.11.1
13 verbose npm v5.6.0
14 error file C:\gfapi-master\package.json
15 error code EJSONPARSE
16 error Failed to parse json
16 error Unexpected string in JSON at position 706 while parsing ‘{
16 error “name”: “gfapi”,
16 error “version”: "0.1.1’
17 error File: C:\gfapi-master\package.json
18 error Failed to parse package.json data.
18 error package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
18 error
18 error Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse
19 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe’,
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js’,
1 verbose cli ‘run-script’,
1 verbose cli ‘docs_win’ ]
2 info using npm@5.6.0
3 info using node@v8.11.1
4 verbose stack Error: Failed to parse json
4 verbose stack Unexpected string in JSON at position 706 while parsing ‘{
4 verbose stack “name”: “gfapi”,
4 verbose stack “version”: "0.1.1’
4 verbose stack at parseError (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:436:11)
4 verbose stack at parseJson (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:104:26)
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:51:5
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
4 verbose stack at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:511:3)
5 verbose cwd C:\gfapi-master
6 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17134
7 verbose argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “run-script” “docs_win”
8 verbose node v8.11.1
9 verbose npm v5.6.0
10 error file C:\gfapi-master\package.json
11 error code EJSONPARSE
12 error Failed to parse json
12 error Unexpected string in JSON at position 706 while parsing ‘{
12 error “name”: “gfapi”,
12 error “version”: "0.1.1’
13 error File: C:\gfapi-master\package.json
14 error Failed to parse package.json data.
14 error package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
14 error
14 error Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse
15 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

The command npm run-script docs_win converts the files src/samples/*.js to formatted HTML, which is just the comment moved to left column. You can view, edit, and the run the sample code files just fine, so just skip to Step 4 and try it out.