title: Invalid shorthand property initializer
body: <p>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:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var http = require('http');
  // makes an http request
  var makeRequest = function(message) {
   var options = {
    host: 'localhost',
    port = 8080,
    path : '/',
    method: 'POST'
   }
   // make request and execute function on recieveing response
   var request = http.request(options, function(response) {
    response.on('data', function(data) {
      console.log(data);
    });
   });
   request.write(message);
   request.end();
  }
  module.exports = makeRequest;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to run this module, it throws the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ node make_request.js
  /home/pallab/Desktop/make_request.js:8
      path = '/',
      ^^^^^^^^^^
  SyntaxError: Invalid shorthand property initializer
      at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
      at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
      at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
      at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
      at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
      at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
      at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
      at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
      at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
      at bootstrap_node.js:509:3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I dont quite get what this means, and what I can do to resolve this.</p>