Getting SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.' during npkill launch about npkill

[sourabhbagrecha]

Hey @zaldih, I switched to v14 and it worked! Thank you.
Can we add a warning in place when users try to execute it from a lower than supported version?
It will save a lot of time. Thanks.

[zaldih]

Hey! Thank you very much for opening this issue.

Could you confirm which version of node you have?

If your node version is <14 then npkill will not work and you can use launch a old version with [email protected].

Otherwise it will indeed be a bug.

[zaldih]

It would be a good idea but, how could we do it?

The error appears as soon as the import(main) function appears in main.js and before main is imported no code execution can be done.

One way I have thought of is to run an intermediate script that does the check and then executes the program but it is an additional complexity that I would not like to add.

So I think it's best to leave it like this. There are already formal warnings in both the readme and the package.json (engines section).

If you have another idea in mind I would like to hear it!