SyntaxError: Unexpected token import - Node.js

Question

When I run node app.js, I am presented with the following error:

import './react/features/base/react/prop-types-polyfill.js';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:616:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:609:3

I am not sure how to fix this because my application requires the import. My application did run with node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server and was built successfully.

Thanks

Possible duplicate of Node error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token import — stdob--
– stdob--, Commented May 31, 2018 at 14:47

Prateek Jain · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-31 16:46:29Z

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Install babel-cli and use babel node to run the script. It will work then as ES5 does not support import. You need to run it using es6.

babel node app.js

answered May 31, 2018 at 16:46

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