Reputation: 45
I am trying to create a discord bot following this tutorial. However, when I try to deploy the bot using npm run dev
I get
[email protected] dev /mnt/c/Users/kkmin/Documents/src/ees
nodemon index.js
[nodemon] 1.19.4
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching dir(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
[nodemon] starting `node index.js`
/mnt/c/Users/kkmin/Documents/src/ees/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/Client.js:40
} catch {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:616:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/mnt/c/Users/kkmin/Documents/src/ees/node_modules/discord.js/src/index.js:8:11)
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...
I'm not sure what's wrong, and I'm very new to this, could someone please help me. Thanks in advance!
Upvotes: 0
Views: 110
Reputation: 300
I think you are using old Node.js versions.
Optional Catch Binding
try ... catch without identifier is called "Optional Catch Binding", It is introduced at ES2019, and available at Node.js >= 10.3.0 (see node.green).
To use that function, Update your Node.js with latest release, follow How do I update Node.js?.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 11
You have a syntax error in your Client.js file. You are attempting to do a try-catch block, but you have implemented it incorrectly. The catch block takes one argument, which represents the error. Please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/try...catch
Upvotes: 0