I can not even complete the first steps when installing next.js

[rrubiorr81]

Bug report

I can not even complete the first steps when installing next.js

Describe the bug

So, i'm just following the guide that the guys is nextjs.org have put in place which seem quite good. https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/getting-started/setup

To Reproduce

When i get to the point i run [after just a couple basic steps]

npm run dev

i get immediately a nasty error:

hello-next npm run dev

> hello-next@1.0.0 dev /Users/myuser/Projects/ssr/hello-next
> next

/Users/myuser/Projects/ssr/hello-next/node_modules/hard-source-    webpack-plugin/index.js:106
}
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token }
at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/myuser/Projects/ssr/hello-next/node_modules/next/dist/build/webpack.js:64:55)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! hello-next@1.0.0 dev: `next`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the hello-next@1.0.0 dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/myuser/.npm/_logs/2018-09-27T22_05_37_582Z-debug.log

This has to be something in my system, but i wonder what. I tried it in my laptop and it also happens there.

I went to this file and looks super normal, located in node_modules/hard-source-webpack-plugin/index.js:

function contextNormalLoaders(compiler, loaders) {
  return loaders.map(loader =>
    Object.assign({}, loader, {
      loader: contextNormalPath(compiler, loader.loader),
    }),
  );
}

I've looked around to see if anyone had had this error, and found nothing like this. Ideas?

I tried making sure webpack was not global. Same result.

[timneutkens]

It sounds like you're on a Node.js version below 8, try checking node -v

[rrubiorr81]

@timneutkens that was it! thanks..! i'm wondering if somewhere in the docs is stated that this library is for node > 8.. or if this is something that's somehow expected..