Adding a middleware from CLI does not work

[Nermeen-M]

I'm trying to add a middleware using CLI as follows:
json-server --watch data.json --middlewares api.js

But it doesn't work and this error appears:

TypeError [ERR_PARSE_ARGS_UNKNOWN_OPTION]: Unknown option '--middlewares'. To specify a positional argument starting with a '-', place it at the end of the command after '--', as in '-- "--middlewares"

How to fix this error?

[kvnloughead]

Hi, I had a similar issue with a different flag, you could try using v0 instead of v1

[Nermeen-M]

Update: It is working!
(there were installation conflicts in my case)

@kvnloughead Thank you for your reply but it is still not working with me!

[jspedrovicente]

@Nermeen-M what were the issues?
I can't get '-m ' to work

[mkamakshi]

@Nermeen-M how did you resolve this issue?
I am getting the same error now. I am unable to proceed with my json-server-auth set up.

[jspedrovicente]

@mkamakshi hey, so I did solve the issue, so the thing is that json-server is at version "alpha", so what you need to do is uninstall it and install it at an older version.
the versions I used were:
"json-server": "^0.17.4",
"json-server-auth": "^2.1.0",

cause the version 1.0^ of json-server doesn't have middleware implementations.

[Nermeen-M]

@mkamakshi uninstall json server then install it again with version 0