Supported Node Version

[thigg]

Hi,

according to your docs. Node 4.x.x is supported. But the following happens for me:

$ nodejs --version
v4.2.6
$ nodejs examples/set_led.js
examples/set_led.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { let lightblue = require('../src/lightblue')
                                                              ^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:966:3

which looks like nodejs4 is not supported. At least for that example.

[gsundin]

Hello @thigg!

I don't believe the Bean Node SDK has ever supported 4.x.x (always 6.0.0+), so that must be a typo. Could you point me to where it says 4.x.x is supported?

[thigg]

https://punchthrough.com/bean/docs/guides/node-sdk/install-linux/

[gsundin]

@thigg nice catch! The typo has been corrected and will be updated soon.

[swstack]

The sdk/cli itself will run in older versions of node once it's transpiled using Babel.js, which occurs when you run npm run build. However, the examples themselves are not part of that transpile process ... you could easily do it yourself but there is no reason not to just run the Node LTS version (unless on RPi where you may be more limited).

@gsundin I would remove the mention of specific version numbers and just say the LTS and Current version are supported, which are always a moving target. When this project was developed the LTS was 4.x.x.