Node version?

[bradparks]

Hey... Thanks for cool looking lib!

I'm a noob in node, but have run other ink stuff fine.... but when I try and npm install then node test.js or node examples/basic.js, i get an error:

/Users/bparks/gitrepos/cli_search/ink-autocomplete/examples/basic.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import {h, render, Component, Text} from 'ink'
                                                              ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

I've tried nvm for node versions 7-11, but no luck.... I said noob, right??

;-)

Thanks!

[raulfdm]

@bradparks That's because you're trying to run a "non node code" with node.

I'm not sure if you already figure it out but you can know more about this issue here:
https://adrianmejia.com/getting-started-with-node-js-modules-require-exports-imports-npm-and-beyond/#Imports

if you want to make the code run, you can use babel-node and create a config file to use @babel/preset-react and @babel/preset-env.

[bradparks]

gotcha.... thanks for the info! Much appreciated!

[raulfdm]

No problem! Glad to help.

Just a thing I found today: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase

Basically instead run node index.js you're gonna run sucrase-node index.ts and all these ESM, new features not supported by node (yet), will be supported by default.

Under the hood it has some configs. Looks promising and avoid this kind of erros! 😄