Just starting going through the guide, and I'm getting a really weird error in the Create a Hello World API. When running the

npx sst start

command, I get the following error/stack trace (replacing stuff specific to my operating system with

os-stuff

):

/os-stuff/notes/node_modules/@serverless-stack/cli/scripts/start.js:308
        result.error.stackTrace?.join("\n")
                                ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'
    at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1097:27)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1019:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:77:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/os-stuff/notes/node_modules/@serverless-stack/cli/bin/scripts.js:59:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1133:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)

I've done very little so far, just ran the

npx create-serverless-stack@latest notes

command, `cd`'d into the directory, and changed the region to

us-west-2

. I did just update npm in case that affects anything. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Pretty sure I saw someone else post this exact error - if I recall correctly you just need to upgrade to node v14+

^ yep that's the solution - I thought fewer people would be on node12

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. The machine I'm on is a little long-in-the-tooth, and it's been awhile since I've updated node.

I should just remove the optional chaining from that line

Thanks for the quick reply!