"ng new" not working, says there is a syntax error

[tylerchasefranklin]

I am trying to start a new Angular project and have used Angular CLI before and it worked, however I cannot get "ng new" to work now. I have uninstalled and reinstalled angular cli, and I have the most up to date versions of node and npm.

When I try to use "ng new angular-project" now this is what I get:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng:23
);
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token )
at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:78:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:543:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
at Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:420:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:139:9)
at bootstrap_node.js:535:3

Not sure what else I am missing. Any help is appreciated!

[clydin]

Can you provide the output of node --version from the same location the ng new was attempted?

[tylerchasefranklin]

node --version v7.4.0

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[clydin]

The Angular CLI requires a minimum Node.js version of v10.13 with v12 recommended for optimal performance.
Can you try updating the Node.js version to see if that resolves the problem?

[tylerchasefranklin]

That fixed it. I apologize, I had run command line functions to update, but I guess I did something wrong on that part. Sorry for wasting your time, but thank you for the help!

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-Chase

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:14 PM Charles ***@***.***> wrote: The Angular CLI requires a minimum Node.js version of v10.13 with v12 recommended for optimal performance. Can you try updating the Node.js <https://nodejs.org/> version to see if that resolves the problem? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#17462 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFHYQPZ3IJZUIRW4WWEGUXTRMNQANANCNFSM4MHELFLQ> .

[clydin]

No problem at all. I'm glad it's working now.
Added a fix (#17463) for the next version so that users should get a message instead of a syntax error in the future.

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