axios: Latest release of axios throws SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

Describe the bug

Started getting the following error yesterday.

/usr/src/app/node_modules/axios/index.js:1
import axios from './lib/axios.js';
       ^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:23)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/src/app/api/vendors/snd/SNDClient.js:1:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)

Axios version in package.json was : >=0.23.0.

The issue went away when I switched to version 1.0.0-alpha.1.

I verified that I was using require to import axios in my code instead of import.

To Reproduce

Use latest version of axios in package.json

  "axios": "1.0.0",

Expected behavior

In an ideal world, the nodejs app would have started without error.

Environment

Axios Version 1.0.0
Node.js Version 12.0.0
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) (EKS)
Additional Library Versions: restify: 8.6.1

Additional context/Screenshots

N/A

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 19 (1 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

rollback axios to old version to work around this build issue: https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/5035 — committed to ticlo/ticlo by rinick a year ago

Most upvoted comments

I solved the error. I used an older version - npm i axios@0.21

+31

nicoContigliani on Oct 14, 2022

npm i axios@1.2.0-alpha.1 didn’t work for me npm i axios@0.21 did work for me

+12

david-littlefield on Nov 28, 2022

same here, 1.3.2 doesn’t work. switching to 0.27.2 resolved the issue

rinick on Mar 1, 2023

I solved the error. I used an older version - npm i axios@0.21

Thanks it really worked

josephmusila on Oct 16, 2022

Still confirming same issue with 1.3.4.

NikoGrano on Mar 2, 2023

Happening on v18.10.0 also

silverpedak on Oct 13, 2022

In an ideal world, the nodejs app would have started without error. Node.js Version 12.0.0

In an ideal world, people wouldn’t use legacy Node without ESM module support enabled by default 😃 Please, update your Node to v13.2.0 or later, or you can try to pass --experimental-modules cmd line argument to enable its experimental support.

DigitalBrainJS on Oct 8, 2022

I solved the error. I used an older version - npm i axios@0.21

worked here, thank you

gabrielvelezmoro on Apr 30, 2023