Unexpected token { error

[ibrand]

I tried running npx sb init -t html in my html project and get a Unexpected token { error that I don't see in any of the issues. Have folks run into this before? It could be that my project is just not the right shape for storybook, as it's a scss and html repo that's a few years old, but it could also be that something is happening on the installation side, so I thought I'd bring the question here.

This is basically how it's happening:

$ nvm use
$ Found '<my-folders>/.nvmrc' with version <v8.4.0>
$ Now using node v8.4.0 (npm v5.3.0)
$ npx sb init -t html
$ Unexpected token {

I thought it could also be a node version issue but I found this conversation leading me to believe that 8.4 should be fine. Any thoughts?

[ibrand]

I'll also add that I tried running npx sb init -t html inside of the html kitchen sink example and saw the same error.