"Unexpected token import" when running babel-watch

Hey @kmagiera

Thanks for creating this package. It seems very useful! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it work so far. I have used the following command:

babel-watch --presets es2015 --watch src webpack/production.js

as well as other variations like these:

babel-watch --presets "es2015" --watch src webpack/production.js
babel-watch --presets=es2015 --watch src webpack/production.js
babel-watch --presets="es2015" --watch src webpack/production.js

I am getting the following error message:

C:\repos\my_repo\webpack\production.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import webpack from 'webpack';
                                                              ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:404:25)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:432:10)
    at loader (C:\repos\my_repo\node_modules\babel-watch\runner.js:14:5)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (C:\repos\my_repo\node_modules\babel-watch\runner.js:22:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:313:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:457:10)
    at process.<anonymous> (C:\repos\my_repo\node_modules\babel-watch\runner.js:38:21)
    at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)

The file in question starts like this:

import webpack from 'webpack';

I also have a .babelrc-file but it doesn’t seem to pick it up.

Any idea how I can get it to work? I’m currently using nodemon with the following command (and yes, the performance is pretty bad):

nodemon --exec babel-node --debug webpack/production.js --watch webpack/production.js

[harm-meijer]

What am I doing wrong here?

Have "babel-watch": "^7.0.0" in devDependencies and "dev": "babel-watch --presets es2015 ./index.js", in scripts of package.json, have an index.js with import express from "express"; but running yarn dev gives me:

import express from "express";
       ^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

[Adam-Edry]

I ran into the same issue as @harm-meijer and it turned out to be caused by having a space in my path. Changing the directory let me run things as usual