adonis serve won't work and say unexpected token {

Question

I've seen this when searching google and the error I have is pretty similar but it is not the same, mine is Syntax Error: Unexpected token { after doing adonis serve --dev

I installed npm and nodejs 8 under debian 9, I hope someone will have an idea. Thank you

Answer 1

I followed this link's instructions : https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/installation#creating-a-new-project to solve the problem. I had to update to nodejs 14 and now to start adonis it is node serve