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react-app new fails after install

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I just installed this and tried it out and it fails automatically. What version of node can I use?

$ npm install -g react-app
/usr/local/bin/react-app -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-app/bin/react-app.js
/usr/local/lib
`-- react-app@1.1.1

$ mkdir test-react-app 
$ cd test-react-app 
$ react-app new    
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-app/bin/react-app.js:6
const { execSync, spawn } = require('child_process');
      ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:387:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
    at startup (node.js:141:18)
    at node.js:933:3
~/git/test-react-app

$ node --version
v5.7.1

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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bradparkscommented, Jul 28, 2016

cool… i’ll give that a shot… and if possible, I’d think it’d be a good idea to have your it check the node version and fail with a nice message there if the node version was too old… thanks!

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koistyacommented, Aug 1, 2016

Now it should print the following message to the console, if you attempt to use this tool with Node < 6:

ERROR: This tool requires Node.js v6 or higher.

react-app v1.1.2 react-app-tools v1.1.2

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