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async function Unexpected token after droplet resize

Posted on January 4, 2018

I resized my droplet and after that my node server doesn’t recognize the keyword async for the function definition as if the Node.js version was wrong


 async function getGrapsh(results){
0|index    |       ^^^^^^^^
0|index    | 
0|index    | SyntaxError: Unexpected token function

but when i type node -v in the terminal i get

v8.9.1

Im using pm2



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I found the problem, it had to do with the pm2 startup settings. To reset that you can run the command : pm2 unstartup

and then run the command that is suggested

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