npm start: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

[Phil Stephenson]

I'm going to apologize in advance for being a complete Node.js newbie. I'm trying to set up a new hipchat add on using this repo, and during installation, when I try to run npm start I'm getting this error:

phil@philbuntu:/var/www/html/my-hipchat-add-on/my-hipchat-add-on$ AC_LOCAL_BASE_URL=https://0bbca244.ngrok.io node app.js

/var/www/html/my-hipchat-add-on/my-hipchat-add-on/lib/hipchat.js:113 resource: /room/${roomId}?expand=participants ^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL at Module._compile (module.js:439:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Module.require (module.js:364:17) at require (module.js:380:17) at module.exports (/var/www/html/my-hipchat-add-on/my-hipchat-add-on/routes/index.js:6:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/html/my-hipchat-add-on/my-hipchat-add-on/app.js:74:1) at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

I'm on Ubuntu 15.10, with node -v 0.10.25

I'm assuming this is a dependency problem, but just wanted to get some clarification. Shouldn't npm install complain here? Do I need redis installed before running this? Thanks in advance.

[Rich Manalang]

Hi Phil. This issue is due to the fact that you're running on a very old version of Node (0.10). If you update your Node to the latest (5.2) or even one of the 4.x versions, this should work just fine.

[Phil Stephenson]

Thanks for the quick response Rich. Now to find a sane way to upgrade on Ubuntu :)

[Rich Manalang]

Take a look at https://github.com/creationix/nvm

[Phil Stephenson]

Closing this. Upgraded to 5.2 and working great now. Thanks again