SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier after upgrading to Babel7

[rust485]

I cannot run my node.js project with babel-node.

I am able to run babel

src -d dist 

and then

node dist

However, my package.json defines serve as

nodemon --exec babel-node src/server.js

and running that returns the following error:

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import express from 'express';
                                                                     ^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at new Script (vm.js:79:7)
    at createScript (vm.js:251:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:28)
    at Module._compile (C:\Users\rust4\Documents\School\Senior\Fall\Senior Design\cowchips\cowchips-back\node_modules\pirates\lib\index.js:83:24)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Object.newLoader [as .js] (C:\Users\rust4\Documents\School\Senior\Fall\Senior Design\cowchips\cowchips-back\node_modules\pirates\lib\index.js:88:7)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties"
  ]
}

Expected behavior/code
This is failing in my server.js at line 1, which has import express from 'express'.
This all worked 100% fine before upgrading to babel7.

Environment

• Node 10.15.1, npm 6.4.1
• @babel/core 7.2.2
• @babel/cli 7.2.3
• @babel/node 7.2.2
• OS: Windows 10

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[nicolo-ribaudo]

What does nodemon --exec node -p process.cwd() print? I suspect that it is setting the wrong cwd.

[rust485]

@nicolo-ribaudo I can't seem to get that command to work. Using nodemon --exec 'node -p "process.cwd()"' in bash works, but when I try adding it as an npm script to my project I get:

[nodemon] 1.18.9
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `'node -p process.cwd()'`
''node' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[rust485]

@nicolo-ribaudo I made a cwd.js file and made the script run nodemon --exec node cwd.js.

The cwd is the root folder of my project.

[rust485]

FIXED

Deleting the root folder and re-cloning the project in the same spot in my FS didn't work. Neither did deleting Node and all stored data for npm.

What did work was cloning the project into a completely different spot in my FS.
The only notable thing about the original project was that the root folder was a sibling in my FS with another root folder for a project using babel. Maybe this project was using the other's .babelrc?

Not sure if this should be closed or not.

[webOS101]

Possibly related, we're running into unexpected identifier issues as well on various different platforms. For example unexpected reserved word let when destructuring an object. The following lines will fail:

	let
		{primaryPosition, secondaryPosition} = this.getGridPosition(updateFrom),
		width, height;

But the following will pass:

	let
		width, height,
		{primaryPosition, secondaryPosition} = this.getGridPosition(updateFrom);

However, on some machines, no problem will occur at all. For example, our travis fails push but pr passes fine! https://travis-ci.org/enactjs/enact/builds/490297083#L566

[existentialism]

@webOS101 I think you're running into #9472 (fixed by: #9477)

[webOS101]

Oh! Good catch, I searched last week for a match and couldn't find one. I agree.

[11ma]

Having similiar issue, i keep getting this when i'm trying to import express

import express from 'express';

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

[rust485]

@madeleke I actually ran into the problem again and figured out the source of the error.

I found that the soft link to my root project folder was causing the errors. I could successfully run my project if I CD'd all the way to my project. But, if I attempted to get to the project via a soft link and run the code, I would get the error every time.

This was a soft link generated with git bash on a windows system. Not sure if this happens on Unix systems as well though.

@nicolo-ribaudo Not sure if this is a babel issue that should be re-opened or if it should be left closed.