# Error while starting workers locally

**URL:** <https://community.temporal.io/t/error-while-starting-workers-locally/13466>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Created:** [September 9, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/error-while-starting-workers-locally/13466 "2024-09-09T06:55:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![vei\_tsi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/vei_tsi/32/5829_2.png) [@vei\_tsi](https://community.temporal.io/u/vei_tsi)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/error-while-starting-workers-locally/13466/1 "2024-09-09T06:55:33Z")

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hello, i try to use temporal from typescript.  
i can start temporal server, but when trying to start workers there is always error:  
'ypeError: Invalid address for Temporal gRPC endpoint: expected URI of the form ‘hostname’ or ‘hostname:port’; got 'localhost:7233  
at normalizeTemporalGrpcEndpointAddress (/home/webdev/sot.keitaro/node\_modules/@temporalio/common/src/internal-non-workflow/parse-host-uri.ts:96:11)  
at compileConnectionOptions (/home/webdev/sot.keitaro/node\_modules/@temporalio/worker/src/connection-options.ts:85:50)  
at Runtime.createNativeClient (/home/webdev/sot.keitaro/node\_modules/@temporalio/worker/src/runtime.ts:341:59)

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**Author:** ![maxim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/maxim/32/8_2.png) [@maxim](https://community.temporal.io/u/maxim)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/error-while-starting-workers-locally/13466/2 "2024-09-10T03:19:31Z")

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Are you able to run [samples](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-typescript)?