Unexpected Token async ()

Question

I am having a strange issue, as my code is working fine in Ubuntu and Windows machines and is failing in a Centos server. I have the same node version 8.9.1 and the same npm 5.5.1 and the same sails 1.0.0.41 (globally and locally). Everything works except on my Centos machine where I get

const makeRequest = async () => {
                          ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token (

with an arrow pointing to the first paren. The only thing that I currently suspect is that my N version management has not properly updated node. Running node -v reports 8.9.1. Here is a simplified cut of the async code:

const makeRequest = async () => {
  try{
    const user = await sails.models.user.findOne({id: user_id});
    return Promise.resolve(user);
    }
  catch(error){
    sails.log.error('error getting data', error);
  }
}

return makeRequest().then(out => {
  return Promise.resolve(out);
});

Any suggestions on how to resolve this error?

Answer 1

There is missing } in the code. Check below

const makeRequest = async() => {
  try {
    const user = await sails.models.user.findOne({
      id: user_id
    });
    return Promise.resolve(user);
  } catch (error) {
    sails.log.error('error getting data', error);
  }
} // -> Its misssing in your code
return makeRequest().then(out => {
  return Promise.resolve(out);
});

Edited

OP's response

The issue was version management.

node -v gave me 8.9.1 sudo node -v gave me 6.11

The solution was to chown the folder for my user (rather then root), and run the application without sudo. NVM then worked correctly. Accepting the other answer as there were errors in my code.

Answer 2

The issue was version management.

node -v gave me 8.9.1 sudo node -v gave me 6.11

The solution was to chown the folder for my user (rather then root), and run the application without sudo. NVM then worked correctly. Accepting the other answer as there were errors in my code.