Originally posted by **Amogh-Bharadwaj** April 25, 2023
Hi!
**Reproduction steps:**
I cloned the latest [postgres-meta repo](https://github.com/supabase/postgres-meta) , set env vars and ran `npm run dev` (after npm installing as well) as instructed.
Unfortunately I ran into the following `SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier` issue:
```bash
❯ npm run dev
> @supabase/postgres-meta@0.0.0-automated dev
> trap 'npm run db:clean' INT && run-s db:clean db:run && nodemon --exec node --loader ts-node/esm src/server/server.ts | pino-pretty --colorize
> @supabase/postgres-meta@0.0.0-automated db:clean
> cd test/db && docker-compose down
Removing network db_default
WARNING: Network db_default not found.
> @supabase/postgres-meta@0.0.0-automated db:run
> cd test/db && docker-compose up --detach && sleep 5
Creating network "db_default" with the default driver
Creating db_db_1 ... done
[nodemon] 2.0.22
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: ts,json
[nodemon] starting `node --loader ts-node/esm src/server/server.ts`
(node:224025) ExperimentalWarning: --experimental-loader is an experimental feature. This feature could change at any time
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at ESMLoader.moduleStrategy (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:139:18)
at ESMLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:236:14)
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...
```
**OS:** Ubuntu 22.04 system.
**Node version:** v16.13.2
Any help would be appreciated!
Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/13966