"Unexpected token {" when using npx babel-node

Question

Here is my script test.js:

import 'jsdom-global/register';
import 'canvas';
console.log('done');

And here is my package.json:

{
  "name": "test-jsdom",
  "description": "Test",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "author": "[email protected]",
  "dependencies": {
    "canvas": "^1.6.7"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-cli": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-preset-env": "^1.6.1",
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.24.1",
    "jsdom": "^11.3.0",
    "jsdom-global": "^3.0.2"
  }
}

When I run npx babel-node test.js, I encountered this error

/Users/antkong/test/node_modules/jsdom/lib/api.js:10
const { URL } = require("whatwg-url");
      ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:373:25)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/antkong/test/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at globalJsdom (/Users/antkong/test/node_modules/jsdom-global/index.js:28:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/antkong/test/node_modules/jsdom-global/register.js:1:19)

And it is my .babelrc file

{
 "presets": ["env", "stage-0"]
}

It seems to me babel-node cannot handle es6 syntax in the dependent js file. I expect babel-node to be able to load and compile all dependency on the fly. How can I fix this problem?

Version info:

$ node --version
v4.8.6
$ npm --version
2.15.11

Answer 1

Should use more up to date version of node.

I use nvm to switch node to version 8.7.0 and the issue is fixed.