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.