webpack hits syntax error when building (ubuntu 22.04)

[Will-Hendrix]

the npm run build fails out when running the first command:

$ npm run build                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

> trguing@1.1.0 build
> tauri build 

     Running beforeBuildCommand `npm run webpack-prod`

> trguing@1.1.0 webpack-prod
> webpack --config webpack.prod.js

[webpack-cli] Failed to load '/home/me/projects/inst/trguing/TrguiNG/webpack.prod.js' config 
[webpack-cli] SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word
    at Loader.moduleStrategy (internal/modules/esm/translators.js:133:18)
       Error beforeBuildCommand `npm run webpack-prod` failed with exit code 2  

the file webpack.prod.js is there, but not nearly big enough to reach a line 133. I'm relatively new to linux so I may just be doing something dumb, but I can't figure out what it is.

[qu1ck]

That is not first command, you should run npm install or better npm ci first.

[qu1ck]

On second look, that looks like you have old nodejs that comes from ubuntu repos. You need at least v16. 18 or 20 should work too.

Some good info here. https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/xqtcgz/ubuntu_and_node_getting_syntaxerror_unexpected/