SyntaxError: Unexpected token function

[LinusU]

When trying to require mention-bot as a module, I'm getting the following error:

node_modules/mention-bot/mention-bot.js:18
async function downloadFileAsync(url: string, cookies: ?string): Promise<string> {
      ^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (node_modules/mention-bot/run-mention-bot.js:12:18)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/linus/dooer/service-mention-bot/index.js:3:20)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:509:3

My code is currently only one line:

require('mention-bot')

I installed mention-bot with:

npm install --save mention-bot

[vjeux]

Arg, looks like the transpilation step is broken before we publish to npm. @gyandeeps do you know why that would be?

[mspangdal]

this effectively breaks the sample api usage, is there a workaround for using the api?