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Drizzle Team•5d ago
neon

(drizzle-kit) Unexpected character error

First time using drizzle, I have encountered Unexpected "�" error coming from drizzle.config.ts when running npx drizzle-kit generate (or any other drizzle-kit command). My drizzle.config.ts: 
import "dotenv/config";
import { defineConfig } from "drizzle-kit";

export default defineConfig({
  out: "./drizzle",
  schema: "./db/schema.ts",
  dialect: "postgresql",
  dbCredentials: {
    url: process.env.DATABASE_URL!,
  },
});
import "dotenv/config";
import { defineConfig } from "drizzle-kit";

export default defineConfig({
  out: "./drizzle",
  schema: "./db/schema.ts",
  dialect: "postgresql",
  dbCredentials: {
    url: process.env.DATABASE_URL!,
  },
});
Here's the log of the error: 
PS D:\SK-home-applainces> npx drizzle-kit generate
No config path provided, using default 'drizzle.config.ts'
Reading config file 'D:\SK-home-applainces\drizzle.config.ts'
Transform failed with 1 error:
D:\SK-home-applainces\drizzle.config.ts:1:0: ERROR: Unexpected "�"
PS D:\SK-home-applainces> npx drizzle-kit generate
No config path provided, using default 'drizzle.config.ts'
Reading config file 'D:\SK-home-applainces\drizzle.config.ts'
Transform failed with 1 error:
D:\SK-home-applainces\drizzle.config.ts:1:0: ERROR: Unexpected "�"
2 Replies
TOSL
TOSL•5d ago
Must be some invisible character. Using VS code? What is the encoding of the file? Should be UTF-8. Delete the first line and retype it.
neon
neonOP•5d ago
Ah, it was vscode indeed. Re-wrote the file in nvim and it works! Thanks.

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