Unexpected token ILLEGAL

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I had a bot working on my personal computer for awhile now but just recently tried to deploy it on a Vultr server running Ubuntu 18.04 and when trying to run the bot I am getting the following

/root/node_modules/tmi.js/lib/client.js:119
                this.log.warn(`Could not parse message with no prefix:\n${
                              ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/node_modules/tmi.js/index.js:12:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)

Not sure what the issue is. I have made sure I am running the latest versions and I have made sure my oauth token was correct.

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The arrow ^ is pointing to the backtick ` so usually when an error occurs like this that means it can’t find the closing backtick and/or single/double quote (whichever one you are using). So check and make sure a closing backtick ` is present and that any special characters matching the one you’re using to wrap the string within’ your argument being passed to this.log.warn() are being escaped with a backslash \ to prevent such an error.

Hopefully that helped!

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Hey thanks for the reply, unfortunately that didn’t really fix my issue, or I am not sure how to use what you told me to solve it. Would I need to fix something within the tmi package?

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Something I forgot to mention was “Unexpected Token ILLEGAL” isn’t referring the oauth token you provide to connect to Twitch. It’s in reference to the problem starting at the backtick `

Also I should have added that the arrow ^ pointing to the start of the function could also mean the problem lies within’ the whatever is calling the method.

With that being said, I really cannot tell where the problem is truly occurring without some sample code that is being executed right before the error occurs.

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I want to think its an issue with how I set up my server because running it locally doesn’t give me any errors.

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Is the bot at least connecting to the Twitch IRC servers?

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No. So I stripped it down to the bare minimum and its now giving me a UnhandledPromiseException now. I uploaded the stripped down version to HERE. Wasn’t sure if I should make a new post or just add to this one. What doesn’t make sense to me is its working perfectly on my local machine just not the Vultr server.

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Honestly, this is beyond me. The problem could be a multitude of things and without the source code I cannot further diagnose the issue.

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Which version of Node.js are you running?

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I’m assuming the latest from their initial question.

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The error OP is getting is to do with template string literals which are only available from Node v4.x and on. I’ve gotten this error reported to the repo a lot in the past.

“Updated to node 4.0, fixed.”

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Now that you bring that up. I remember installing node on linux before using apt or apt-get and it installed an old version of node rather than the latest. That could definitely be a possibility here.

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For the record,

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

means the parser encountered a character it didn’t know how to handle there.

It being a backtick (`) that starts a string immediately points to the version of Node not supporting that syntax, which means the installed Node is years out of date.

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