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Node tells you what went wrong

When something's wrong, Node stops and shows the file, the line number, the line itself with a ^ under the problem, and the kind of error.

Common beginner mistakes: a missing quote or bracket, or wrong capitals (JavaScript cares: console.log, not Console.log).

1hello.js:2
2console.log("Hi"
3 ^^^^
4SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list