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eject built in xcode resulted in "SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode."

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Description

Created app using crna cli, yarn eject using expo sdk, open xcode using ios project workspace, in xcode clean run build, resulted in JavaScript “SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.” with chalk module

Expected Behavior

Expected to build with xcode successfully for yarn eject code

What action did you perform, and what did you expect to happen?

creact-react-native app yarn eject, follow eject instruction and select the expo sdk one go into ios folder, pod install open ios project with xcode in xcode, run clean and build

Observed Behavior

What actually happened when you performed the above actions?

SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.

If there’s an error message, please paste the full terminal output and error message in this code block:

.nvm/versions/node/v7.10.1//lib/node_modules/exp/node_modules/chalk/index.js:2
const escapeStringRegexp = require('escape-string-regexp');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)

Environment

Please run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

npm ls react-native-scripts: react-native-scripts@1.11.1
npm ls react-native: react-native@0.52.0
npm ls expo: expo@25.0.0
node -v: v7.10.1
npm -v: 4.2.0
yarn --version: 1.5.1
watchman version: 4.7.0

Also specify:

Operating system: osx sierra 10.12.6
Phone/emulator/simulator & version: xcode 9.2

Reproducible Demo

creact-react-native app
yarn eject, follow eject instruction and select the expo sdk one
go into ios folder, pod install
open ios project with xcode
in xcode, run clean and build

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

TylerLHcommented, Jul 16, 2018

Seeing this issue as well in latest versions of CRNA & Expo/ExpoKit, even using Node 10.6.0. Node version doesn’t seem to be a factor here oddly enough.

Will continue to dig in more and report back if I’m able to find anything useful.

1reaction

brentvatnecommented, Mar 29, 2018

you can update node version as well to resolve this problem

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