not able to check protractor version in local machine

Question

I installed node.js and protractor from here, official protractor test site. I can see the version of node and npm but when I run following command to check the version of protractor installed I get following message.

C:\>protractor -v
C:\Users\<>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\cli.js:3
const fs = require("fs");
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\<>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\bin\protractor:5:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

What am I missing or doing wrong?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 18:15

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in any local directory this should work protractor --version

answered Oct 22 '19 at 18:15

Joaquin Casco

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Above command does't work. As soon as I type above command, I get above mentioned error message. – Chuchoo Oct 22 '19 at 18:19
you are typing `-v` though. Where are you running the command? I don't get why you get that error output – Joaquin Casco Oct 22 '19 at 18:21
I tried protractor --version . I still get same error message. – Chuchoo Oct 22 '19 at 18:40
even opening a terminal from scratch, navigating to a root folder will give you that output? – Joaquin Casco Oct 22 '19 at 23:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '19 at 00:47

I already had an old version of nodejs in my "Program Files(X86)" directory. I deleted the old version of nodejs and reinstalled the latest version from here. I am not getting above error anymore.

I found answer in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18412505/4086794

not able to check protractor version in local machine

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