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4.1 Unexpected token function

See original GitHub issue

bodyparser(4.1) in Koa(2.2.0)

just use like app.use(bodyParser());

error showed as below:

/some/path/node_modules/koa-bodyparser/index.js:69
  return async function bodyParser(ctx, next) {
               ^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:513:28)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/zhangyan/Documents/Zalaxy/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:409:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/some/path/server/app.js:4:20)

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

12reactions

dead-horsecommented, Mar 16, 2017

ensure your node version is >=7.6.0

3reactions

struCodercommented, May 7, 2017

this is okay

const babelrc = {
  "ignore": /node_modules\/(?!(koa-bodyparser)\/).*/,
  "presets": ["node6"],
  "plugins": [
    "transform-class-properties",
    "transform-async-to-generator"
  ]
}

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