Node.js: TypeError: object is not a function

Question

I have a weird error:

var http = require(\"http\");
var request = require(\"request\");

http.createServer(function(request, response) {
    response.writeHead(2         


        

Answer 1

You are no longer able to access the global variable 'request'. You need to rename your local variable 'request' with some other name and the problem will be resolved.

Answer 2

Access to the request global variable is lost as you have a local variable with the same name. Renaming either one of the variables will solve this issue:

var http = require("http"); var request = require("request");

http.createServer(function(req, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
    request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
      if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log(body) // Print the google web page.
      }
    })
  response.end();
}).listen(8888);