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I am facing this issue while building my application-

2020-07-12 16:48:39 ....: 
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SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:617:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)..


   
                        BUILD FAILED

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

I am unable to understand what is causing it. I am trying to migrate code from cfn to cdk. Please help me with this issue.

tg_anon
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Check this thread from GitHub: https://github.com/google/docsy/issues/265 Basically, what you need to do is to upgrade the node version to 10.0.0 or higher and update the fs-extra package to 9.0.0 or higher. For me, it just worked with the update of node.

Carlos Emiliano Castro Trejo
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  • Yay after almost an hour of searching! For me, updating npm through the command line (while it ran successfully) wasn't enough, so I had to clean install from nodejs.org and it worked fine (took a LONG time to install though) – Justin Feb 01 '21 at 01:45
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As commented by Carlos, do this, please:

cd ~
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt install nodejs

After this, check the version:

node -v

The result should be:

v14.16.0
Silvio Guedes
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