[Angular 5] Module parse failed: Octal literal in strict mode

Hello,

I integrated xterm into my Angular 5 project, and everything works fine except the colors.

let term = new Terminal();
term.write('Hello from \033[1;3;31mxterm.js\033[0m $ ');

Be cause of the \033[, this produces the following error :

Module parse failed: Octal literal in strict mode
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.

Could you help me solve this problem? Thank you very much!

Details

• Browser and browser version: Chrome 63.0.3239.132
• OS version: Windows 10
• xterm.js version: 3.0.2

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new Angular 5 project with the latest version of angular-cli
2. Integrate xterm.js basic example from the readme as explained there
3. Run npm start

[ficristo]

This seems related to the "use strict" directive. Does using the hexadecimal sequence work for you? Instead of \033 try \x1b.

[PiePanic]

answer from @ficristo worked