Javascript error with JSHint

I brought this book: http://ift.tt/1zVomt1

And I was studying the examples and came across with this piece of code:

var http    =   require(‘http’);
var fs  =   require(‘fs’);
http.createServer(function  (req,   res)    {
    if  (req.url    === ‘/favicon.ico’) {
            return  res.end();
    }
    console.log(‘Incoming   request to  ‘   +   req.url);
    var i   =   2;
    res.writeHead(200,  {‘Content-Type’:    ‘text/plain’});
    setTimeout(function()   {
            fs.readFile(__filename, {
                    encoding:   ‘utf8’
            },  function    (error, contents)   {
                    if  (error) {
                            console.error(error);
                            return  res.end();
                    }
                    console.log(‘sending    response    for ‘   +   req.url);
                    res.end(contents);
            });
    },  5000);
    while(i—)   {
            console.log(‘Loop   value:  ‘       +   i   +   ‘\r’);
    }
}).listen(1337, ‘127.0.0.1’);
console.log(‘Server running at  http://127.0.0.1:1337/’);

I found 3 problems:

• The programmer uses 2 spaces, which is common among beginning programmers (it has 8 spaces now because I changed it, it should be 4, I know)


• The code does not compile


• Bad programming practices, like "__filename", from where he got this variable from??

So as a new javascript programmer, I may be overextending myself and getting wrong conclusions. Is this the case?

These are the errors given by JSHint(npm install):

27,12: Unexpected '—'.

28,9: Expected ')' to match '(' from line 27 and instead saw 'console'.

28,16: Expected an identifier and instead saw '.'.

28,16: Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.

28,17: Missing semicolon.

30,1: Expected ')' and instead saw '}'.

30,2: Missing semicolon.

30,2: Expected an identifier and instead saw ')'.

30,3: Expected an operator and instead saw '.'.

30,3: Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.

30,4: Missing semicolon.

So is this guy writing bad code in his book, or am I as a javascript beginning programmer overextending myself?