Thanks strawberry 3.141 for the npm start dev tip! Was essential in getting past the stupid errors, and identifying the larger ones.

BIG shoutout to cowboysdude for the guidence, help, and code reformatting which got the JSON working!!!

Now I just have to get it formatted and I’ll be set!!

Thats my problem, I’m so new I don’t even know how to debug the module. It won’t start at all, doesn’t even display “Loading”.

I am trying to build a module to replace the compliments default with one that displays random quotes. The quotes are being pulled from a public api at forismatic.com - http://forismatic.com/en/api/ . It seems straight forward from the python example they have. I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong here.

/* global Module */

/* Magic Mirror
 * Module: MMM-ForismaticQuotes
 *
 * By 
 * MIT Licensed.
 */

Module.register("ForismaticQuotes", {
	defaults: {
		updateInterval: 60000,
		retryDelay: 5000,
		animationSpeed: 5000,
		lang: config.language || "en",
		key: 123456,
		apiURL: "http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/"
	},

	requiresVersion: "2.1.0", // Required version of MagicMirror

	start: function() {
		var self = this;
		var dataRequest = null;
		var dataNotification = null;

		//Flag for check if module is loaded
		this.loaded = false;

		// Schedule update timer.
		this.getData();
		setInterval(function() {
			self.updateDom();
		}, this.config.updateInterval);
	},

	/*
	 * getData
	 * function example return data and show it in the module wrapper
	 * get a URL request
	 *
	 */
	getData: function() {
		var self = this;
		
		var urlApi = this.config.apiURL + "?method=getQuote&format=json&lang=" + this.config.lang + "&key=" + this.config.key;

		var retry = true;
		
		var str_key = key.toString();
		
		if (this.config.key.length() > 6) {
			Log.error(self.name, "Max key length is 6.");
		}
		
		if (this.config.lang != "en" || "ru") {
			Log.error(self.name, "Please enter a supported language into the config.");
		}

		var dataRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
		dataRequest.open("GET", urlApi, true);
		dataRequest.onreadystatechange = function() {
			console.log(this.readyState);
			if (this.readyState === 4) {
				console.log(this.status);
				if (this.status === 200) {
					self.processData(JSON.parse(this.response));
				} else if (this.status === 401) {
					self.updateDom(self.config.animationSpeed);
					Log.error(self.name, this.status);
					retry = false;
				} else {
					Log.error(self.name, "Could not load data.");
				}
				if (retry) {
					self.scheduleUpdate((self.loaded) ? -1 : self.config.retryDelay);
				}
			}
		};
		dataRequest.send();
	},


	/* scheduleUpdate()
	 * Schedule next update.
	 *
	 * argument delay number - Milliseconds before next update.
	 *  If empty, this.config.updateInterval is used.
	 */
	scheduleUpdate: function(delay) {
		var nextLoad = this.config.updateInterval;
		if (typeof delay !== "undefined" && delay >= 0) {
			nextLoad = delay;
		}
		nextLoad = nextLoad ;
		var self = this;
		setTimeout(function() {
			self.getData();
		}, nextLoad);
	},

	getDom: function() {
		var self = this;

		// create element wrapper for show into the module
		var wrapper = document.createElement("div");

		if (!this.loaded) {
			wrapper.innerHTML = this.translate("LOADING");
			wrapper.className = "dimmed light small";
			return wrapper;
		}
		// If this.dataRequest is not empty
		if (this.dataRequest) {
			var wrapperDataRequest = document.createElement("div");
			
			var wrapperDataRequestQuote = document.createElement("div");
			wrapperDataRequestQuote.innerHTML = this.quoteText;
			wrapperDataRequestQuote.className = "bold xlarge bright align-left";
			
			var wrapperDataRequestAuthor = document.createElement("div");
			wrapperDataRequestAuthor.innerHTML = this.quoteAuthor;
			wrapperDataRequestAuthor.className = "regular medium normal align-right";
			
			var wrapperDataRequestLink = document.createElement("div");
			wrapperDataRequestLink.innerHTML = this.quoteLink;
			wrapperDataRequestLink.className = "thin xsmall dimmed align-right";
			
			wrapperDataRequest.appendChild(wrapperDataRequestQuote);
			wrapperDataRequest.appendChild(wrapperDataRequestAuthor);
			wrapperDataRequest.appendChild(wrapperDataRequestLink);
			
			wrapper.appendChild(wrapperDataRequest);
		}
		return wrapper;
	},

	processData: function (data) {
		
		if (!data || !data.quoteText) {
			// Did not receive usable new data.
			return;
		}
		
		var this.quoteText = data.quoteText;
		var this.quoteAuthor = data.quoteAuthor;
		var this.quoteLink = data.quoteLink;
		
		this.loaded = true;
		this.updateDom(this.config.animationSpeed);
	},
});

Any help would be great, thanks!!