POST request error - SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

[Flexusaurs]

POST ERROR WHILE ADDING DATA FROM REST CLIENTS

I first tried to re-write this whole project from scratch as an exercise, just trying do dip my feet into Next and React.
In the beginning, I thought it was something wrong on my end and re factored the whole project down to some packages (worst idea),
then deleting my version and doing a clean git clone of the project to my local directory.

I tried to do a clean run, just updated my .env file.

The error I got on the page itself was as follows:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I also got another error that may be related:

TypeError: Invalid protocol

Steps to recreate

• create a local separate directory
• cd "insert-your-directory"
• git clone https://github.com/fireship-io/redis-nextjs-fulltext-search.git .
• npm run dev

[NoahMLoomis]

I'm running into the exact same problem... I feel like it's a small fix that I don't know just because I'm new to Redis

The problem seems to be happening with the connection to the client in redis.js.

    console.log("Before")
    await client.open(process.env.REDIS_URL);
    console.log("After")

The "Before is printing out but not after.

I checked and my env REDIS_URL is coming through as it's supposed to.

I'll try looking through the video again to see if I missed anything with my connection to the redis DB

[NoahMLoomis]

@Flexusaurs Figured it out, you probably have the same issue

When adding the REDIS_URL to your .env.local, i accidentally just copy and pasted the public endpoint, instead of doing the format that Jeff says to use.

The format to use is redis://default:HOST:PORT

For me it was
REDIS_URL=redis://default:ExKnoJSYIRo3kY0v9PhjBOQZ8DsFhYh1@redis-14847.c245.us-east-1-3.ec2.cloud.redislabs.com:14847

Here's the spot where he talks about it:
https://youtu.be/DOIWQddRD5M?t=300