Pm2: PM2 does not work anymore on NodeJS V6

[cfabio]

What's going wrong?

PM2 doesn't seem to work anymore on NodeJS v6, I think it has to do with the library Chokidar having dropped support to NodeJS versions older than 8; see pull request.
When I run pm2 start something.js the only output I get is [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/root/.pm2.
pm2.log file contains the following error message:

async remove(item) {
        ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    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)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Watcher.js:6:16)

How could we reproduce this issue?

Try to use PM2 with NodeJS v6

Supporting information

# pm2 report
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/root/.pm2

Am I missing something? Any idea on how I can make PM2 work with this old version of NodeJS?

[Unitech]

PM2 v4 does not support Node.js versions bellow 8.x, active support on LTS versions and current 13.x
https://travis-ci.org/Unitech/pm2

[mahesh19868]

Hi Unitech,

I am using node version 8.12.0 and I am also getting the same error. Please find the error details below:-

/usr/src/app/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/chokidar/index.js:151
async remove(item) {
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object. (/usr/src/app/node_modules/pm2/lib/Watcher.js:6:16)

[alinech20]

Hey guys,

After we updated to the latest pm2 version, we also got this error and after a bit of reading I saw this node compatibility issue. The thing is that we recently updated to Node 13.10.1 and we still encounter this issue. It writes around 40-50MB of logs each day to that file, this being the only error. Any help, please? Error below:

/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/chokidar/index.js:151
    async remove(item) {
          ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Watcher.js:6:16)

[noetix]

If you want to run PM2 on Node v6 you'll have to use version 3.

npm install pm2@^3