I've just imported my Reactjs project to a new machine on Ubuntu and installed most dependencies with npm install
successfully bar the following:
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /react-scripts/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]
Trying to run the project with npm start
fails with:
> [email protected] start /root/17-visit-booker-frontend
> react-scripts start
/root/17-visit-booker-frontend/node_modules/react-scripts/scripts/start.js:33
const {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
at startup (node.js:136:18)
at node.js:966:3
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-81-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v4.2.6
npm ERR! npm v3.5.2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'react-scripts start'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the booking-frontend package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! react-scripts start
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs booking-frontend
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls booking-frontend
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /root/17-visit-booker-frontend/npm-debug.log
Attempting to run any npm
script including npm run build
all fails with the exact same error referencing the same lines in each file in the SyntaxError:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
at startup (node.js:136:18)
at node.js:966:3
Running the same scripts on my original machine, a Mac, succeed.
I've tried re-installing node
/npm
which do not fix the issue. Is the supposedly optional dependency causing this to fail?
Any help is appreciated.
You're using node.js v4 which does not by default support destructuring syntax (the const {field1, field2, ....} = object
) that it is failing on.
You have two options: