Parsing error: Unexpected token =>

code:

const task = (fn) => async () => {
    const start = new Date();
    console.log(`[${format(start)}] Starting '${fn.name}'...`);
    await fn();
    const end = new Date();
    const time = end.getTime() - start.getTime();
    console.log(`[${format(end)}] Finished '${fn.name}' after ${time}ms`);
};

error:

error  Parsing error: Unexpected token =>

config:

airbnb/base (eslint-config-airbnb@2.1.1, eslint@1.10.3)

[vadimcoder]

@dwang68 I have 'ecmaVersion': 8 and it works. So first I would suggest to set 8 and see.

[ilyavolodin]

async/await are part of es2017 spec (i.e. ecmaVersion: 8). es2016 only added one syntax change to the language - ** operator.