Verdaccio can't start after updating

[wchalmers]

Not sure if this is the right place to put this?

I don't know much about verdaccio as i normally wokr on Windows, verdaccio was working fine, then to update it i types "npm install -g verdaccio" then let it do its thing and restarted both verdaccio and nginx, nginx started fine but verdaccio will not start and is throwing a weird missing syntax token error:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
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 Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/verdaccio/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/living/helpers/form-controls.js:18:5)

Can anyone please help me out?

[GlenTiki]

What is your node.js version? run node -v.

Also what is your verdaccio version? run verdaccio -v

[wchalmers]

Its node.js version 8.10.0 (which is depcricated now i think? could that be causing the issue?) and i cant see the verdaccio version because it comes up with the same error as posted above, anytime i try to do a verdaccio command it throws it, i'd imagine it would be quite a new version since its updated every month though.

[GlenTiki]

Node version 8+ shouldn't be causing the issue, as Verdaccio requires 6+. This may require an issue to be opened in verdaccio itself, over here: https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio/issues

[juanpicado]

@enzy20000 your issue is explained here verdaccio/verdaccio#1753

If you cannot upgrade to node v10 , then use

npm i -g verdaccio@4.4.4

We have dropped Node 8 after >v4.5.0 since is not longer maintained (some transitive dependencies required already Node v10) also to help users to easy migrate to a future Verdaccio 5.

In a nutshell,

Verdaccio 4.5.x or higher requires Node >=v10.
Verdaccio 4.0.0-4.4.4 support Node >=8.
Verdaccio 3.x support Node >=6. ⚠️ <- There are no longer maintenance support and I encourage all users to move to v4.
Verdaccio 2.x. <-- well ... if you are still using this, you should not, is under your security risk.

Side note, In any case, please, keep using the latest versions, with the most newer Node.js version as possible.

[wchalmers]

Thank you Juan!!