Invalid shorthand property initializer

Question

I wrote the following code in JavaScript for a node project, but I ran into an error while testing a module. I\'m not sure what the error means. Here\'s my code:

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Answer 1

Change the = to : to fix the error.

var makeRequest = function(message) {

 var options = {

  host: 'localhost',

  port : 8080,

  path : '/',

  method: 'POST'

 }