Discussion on: How To Build Rest API With NodeJS, Express, and MySQL

[Ravikumar Phd]

HI thanks for the mindblowing Article

but am facing the issue while starting the npm
the line no. 13 in user.controller.js
getAllUsers = async (req, res, next) => {
am using MySQL

Error:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\xampp\htdocs\mysql-node-express>npm start

mysql-node-express@1.0.0 start C:\xampp\htdocs\mysql-node-express
node src/server.js

C:\xampp\htdocs\mysql-node-express\src\controllers\user.controller.js:13
getAllUsers = async (req, res, next) => {
^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
at new Script (vm.js:79:7)
at createScript (vm.js:251:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:10)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! mysql-node-express@1.0.0 start: node src/server.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the mysql-node-express@1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional log
ging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-02-24T09_31_30_8
14Z-debug.log

C:\xampp\htdocs\mysql-node-express>

please check screenshot

[mauro-montrond]

Hey man,
I think I was running into the same error, check your node version and update to the latest version so it recognizes the latest syntax.
I hope this helped you, cheers.