Nuxt.js: Nuxt cannot initialize

[padmaseenivasan]

async ready() {
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)

Note: node version is 8.9.4 npm version is 5.6.0

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[sourcoin]

Fresh install same issue.

[rkgarcia]

Some news about this?

[rkgarcia]

Minimum requirements
https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/blob/dev/package.json#L53

  "engines": {
    "node": ">=8.0.0",
    "npm": ">=5.0.0"
  },

[lingjieding]

thanks @rkgarcia

[cmty[bot]]

This question has been resolved by @rkgarcia, see answer.

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