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JavaScript JavaScript Unit Testing Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai Test Suites and Test Specs (describe and it)

Posted by Fred Young
Fred Young
15,523 Points

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

I encountered the following error while trying to run tests. I am using node v8.16.2, mocha v8.0.1, and chai v4.2.0.

treehouse:~/workspace$ npm test                                                                                                                               

> workspace@1.0.0 test /home/treehouse/workspace                                                                                                              
> mocha                                                                                                                                                       

/home/treehouse/workspace/node_modules/mocha/lib/esm-utils.js:6                                                                                               
    return import(url.pathToFileURL(file));                                                                                                                   
           ^^^^^^                                                                                                                                             

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import                                                                                                                          
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)                                                                                                                             
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)                                                                                                                 
    at Module._compile (module.js:617:28)                                                                                                                     
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)                                                                                                       
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)                                                                                                                         
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)                                                                                                                       
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)                                                                                                                
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)                                                                                                                      
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)                                                                                                                     
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/treehouse/workspace/node_modules/mocha/lib/cli/run-helpers.js:18:27)
Alessandra De Lucas
Alessandra De Lucas
715 Points

Getting the same error.