npm start .. works fine in intellij but not in terminal?

Question

npm start works fine in intellij's terminal.

But it fails at the below line when run in regular shell terminal

 const {
   choosePort,
   createCompiler,
   prepareProxy,
   prepareUrls,
 } = require('react-dev-utils/WebpackDevServerUtils');

The code above is inside start.js and npm start runs node start.js

I guess intellij somehow uses es6 by default.
How can I mimic that outside of intellij?

Below is the error

$ npm start

> bold-chat-admin@0.1.0 start /Users/eugenekim/Documents/boldchatting.web
> PORT=3000 node scripts/start.js

/Users/eugenekim/Documents/boldchatting.web/scripts/start.js:23
const {
      ^

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:139:18)
    at node.js:999:3

npm ERR! Darwin 17.3.0
npm ERR! argv "/Users/eugenekim/.nvm/versions/node/v5.5.0/bin/node" "/Users/eugenekim/.nvm/versions/node/v5.5.0/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v5.5.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! bold-chat-admin@0.1.0 start: `PORT=3000 node scripts/start.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the bold-chat-admin@0.1.0 start script 'PORT=3000 node scripts/start.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the bold-chat-admin package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     PORT=3000 node scripts/start.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls bold-chat-admin
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/eugenekim/Documents/boldchatting.web/npm-debug.log

Try to run this command instead `PORT=3000 node scripts/start.js --harmony` docs https://nodejs.org/en/docs/es6/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17379277/destructuring-in-node-js — Molda, Jan 24 '18 at 13:52
@NuliDev I wonder why you deleted your answer, I fixed it by upgrading npm as you suggested. — eugene, Jan 24 '18 at 14:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '18 at 13:59

IDEA itself doesn't run the code - it's run with Node.js interpreter you have chosen in your NPM run configuration (usually the same as set in Preferences | Languages & Frameworks | Node.js and NPM, unless you choose a different one explicitly). Looks as if the Node.js interpreter you use for running your scripts in IDEA supports ES6 destructuring natively, whereas node 5.5 used in terminal doesn't. See http://node.green/ for information about ES6 featurtes supported in different Node versions

npm start .. works fine in intellij but not in terminal?

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