micro-dev command fails ( npm run dev)

[muthah]

Tried the micro-dev command and it failed. below is the output from the command:

>npm run dev

 microservice@0.0.1 dev /home/.../microservice
 micro-dev

/home/.../microservice/node_modules/micro-dev/lib/serve.js:10
module.exports = async (file, flags, restarting) => {
                       ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token (
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    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> (/home/.../microservice/node_modules/micro-dev/bin/micro-dev.js:12:15)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! microservice@0.0.1 dev: `micro-dev`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the microservice@0.0.1 dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

Which node runtime do you recommend for micro-dev to run since the other one

> npm start  
> microservice@0.0.1 start /home/muthah/ad/dev/node/microservice
> micro
>micro: Accepting connections on port 3000

runs perfectly. Iam using node 6.11

package.json

{
  "name": "microservice",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "micro service POC",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
  "start": "micro",
  "dev": "micro-dev",
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/"
  },
}

[leo]

Your Node.js version is not supported. Please upgrade to the latest one 😊