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pm2 command error 'SyntaxError: Unexpected token' in linux environment

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The versions for my node, npm and pm2 are:

node: v6.14.3

npm: v3.10.10

pm2: v2.10.2

I'm trying to deploy an angular app with pm2 in my corporate linux environment that has no internet access. I have installed pm2 via the command below from my corporate artifact repository by setting npm registry:

$ npm install -g pm2

Installation was successful and I could see a folder in my node modules folder at /home/MY_ID/node_modules/pm2. Somehow the path variable was not set so I was not able to run any pm2 command. So I ran the following command in my terminal to set pm2 path variable:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/MY_ID/node_modules/pm2/bin

After which I tried running command pm2 -v to check for pm2, I got the error below:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/MY_ID/node_modules/pm2/constants.js:10:14)

May I know what did I do wrong here? Could it be that the path was set wrongly or the pm2 was not installed properly?

Solution

  • From pm2's github page:

    All Node.js versions are supported starting Node.js 8.X.

    You need to install a more recent version of nodejs (at least v 10, v6 is very old).

    Regarding that error, the problem might be that pm2 is using the spread operator with an object, which is not supported until nodejs 8.3 (or v 8.0 running with --harmony flag).

    Example

    let clone = {...object};