I came back to a Win10 PC I haven't used in a while. First thing, I tried to update npm with
> npm i npm -g
I got back this:
added 290 packages, removed 250 packages and updated 37 packages in 38.815s
╭─────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Update available 5.0.0 → 6.4.1 │
│ Run npm i -g npm to update │
│ │
╰─────────────────────────────────────╯
Then, I tried to run npm i -g npm and got:
let notifier = require('update-notifier')({pkg})
^^^
SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:373:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
at startup (node.js:139:18)
at node.js:974:3
Now when I try to do anything, I get that same error. In case you were wondering I was trying to update from npm 5.0.0 to 6.4.1.
Things I've tried
I Googled this error and found the following:
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- Following these instructions I first tried to clear npm's cache with
npm cache clean -f, but got the sameSyntaxError. - The same instructions also say to do some stuff with nvm, which I don't have, so I tried to install it with
npm i nvm -g, but same error.
- Following these instructions I first tried to clear npm's cache with
use strict, even though I know this is for a program using node. I wanted to be sure I tried everything before posting a question.
'"use strict"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Fresh npm install of webpack.js is throwing Block-scope error but this didn't seem to apply to me because I'm not using Visual Studio, and I haven't done anything with babel or webpack or es6. I'm just trying to update npm.
