Can I take a look at app-picker.coffee?

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SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
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    at Object.parse (native)
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    at /etc/service/watcher/source/app-picker.coffee:73:31
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my project is experiencing some problem starting. it’s built in an unsupported language, but I’d still like to see if I can make it work.

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There is nothing very exciting in that file :slight_smile: The error message means that your watch.json or glitch.json is not well formed. I can take a look today or tomorrow if you want to share the project link with me :slight_smile:

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I see. I made a project from scratch, and it doesn’t have either of those two files. What should be in them?

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well, neither of them is very well documented because we are focusing really hard on the JavaScript ecosystem right now. You can look at some example usage of watch.json here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/create-react-app-sample and a glitch.json usage example is here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/go-revel and https://glitch.com/edit/#!/ponylang-demo

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basically Glitch does this:

  1. if it sees a package.json file, it interprets the project as a Javascript project, and uses package.json for its things

  2. if it does not see package.json, it tries to load glitch.json that can contain custom start/install/watch commands

  3. watch.json is used in conjuction with package.json and overrides the default watch rules.

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Thanks for the info. I’ve resolved this by renaming my requirements.txt file.

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yep, requirements.txt is another magic file like package.json… we have basic handling (undocumented and unsupported) for Python through requirements.txt :slight_smile: You can use requirements.txt to define your dependencies, and start.sh for your start script: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/flask-demo