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SyntaxError in micromatch when starting browser-sync

See original GitHub issue

Issue details

A SyntaxError is thrown when starting browser-sync:

[13:07:39] Finished 'build' after 20 s
[13:07:39] Starting 'server'...
[13:07:39] 'server' errored after 7.79 ms
[13:07:39] /xxx/xxx/node_modules/micromatch/index.js:44
    let isMatch = picomatch(String(patterns[i]), { ...options, onResult }, true);
                                                   ^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/xxx/xxx/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
    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)

Steps to reproduce/test case

Run npm install with browser-sync@^2.10.0 as dev dependency
Run gulp

Please specify which version of Browsersync, node and npm you’re running

Browsersync [2.26.3]
Node [6.12.2]
Npm [3.10.10]

Affected platforms

linux
windows
OS X
freebsd
solaris
other (please specify which)

Browsersync use-case

API
Gulp
Grunt
CLI

for all other use-cases, (gulp, grunt etc), please show us exactly how you’re using Browsersync

gulp.task('default',
    gulp.series(
        'build',
        server,
        watch
    )
);

function server(done) {
  'use strict';
  browser.init({
    server: PATHS.dist.base, port: PORT, open: false
  });
  done();
}

PATHS.dist.base: 'dist' PORT: 1234

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:17
Comments:11 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

8reactions

michaellenahancommented, Apr 23, 2019

Introduced here (v2.26.4) as far as I can tell: in my own project, pinning browser-sync to “2.26.3” in my own package.json prevented the issue from occuring.

This is the commit in browser-sync which introduces this issue:

https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync/commit/05a58dbc3e788b7b9c84b9c0f4ab84f60bc619b1

Specifically, in the package.json file: packages/browser-sync/package.json

“micromatch”: “2.3.11”, … is replaced with: “micromatch”: “^4.0.2”,

Please see: https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/issues/159

My suggestion is to revert to the latest 3.x version of micromatch (“3.1.10”), which does not make use of the “…” three-dots spread syntax https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Spread_syntax in index.js

Compare: https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/blob/3.1.10/index.js

5reactions

shakyShanecommented, Jul 17, 2020

@jcyuyi can you try browser-sync@2.26.10 on node version 8+

if you’re using anything below node 8, just stay pinned on 2.26.7 😃

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