API - Graphql - Simple query - code sample possibly in error

[netaisllc]

using this code from the samples:

// Simple query
const allEvents = await API.graphql(graphqlOperation(ListEvents));

resulted in the following webpack abend[1]::

> amplify-js-app@1.0.0 build /Users/cssian/Projects/graphql/amplify-js-app
> webpack

Hash: a9eb109f3fa4ac5532a9
Version: webpack 4.20.2
Time: 82ms
Built at: 2018-10-09 15:44:50
         Asset      Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
main.bundle.js    29 KiB    main  [emitted]  main
    index.html  1.54 KiB          [emitted]
Entrypoint main = main.bundle.js
[./src/app.js] 302 bytes {main} [built] [failed] [1 error]

ERROR in ./src/app.js 9:21
Module parse failed: Can not use keyword 'await' outside an async function (9:21)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
|
| // Simple query
> const allEvents = await API.graphql( graphqlOperation( ListEvents) );
| console.log( allEvents);

[1] 'abend' - abnormal end

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