Error while doing truffle init. EDIT: Truffle isn't working itself

Question

I am getting the following error while doing truffle init. I have followed the steps here:

https://medium.com/@merunasgrincalaitis/the-ultimate-end-to-end-tutorial-to-create-and-deploy-a-fully-descentralized-dapp-in-ethereum-18f0cf6d7e0e

When I get to truffle init, I get the following error:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:60353
!function(e,a){ true?module.exports=a():"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define("ganache",[],a):"object"==typeof exports?exports.ganache=a():e.ganache=a()}(global,function(){return function(e){var a={};function t(c){if(a[c])return a[c].exports;var n=a[c]={i:c,l:!1,exports:{}};return e[c].call(n.exports,n,n.exports,t),n.l=!0,n.exports}return t.m=e,t.c=a,t.d=function(e,a,c){t.o(e,a)||Object.defineProperty(e,a,{configurable:!1,enumerable:!0,get:c})},t.r=function(e){Object.defineProperty(e,"__esModule",{value:!0})},t.n=function(e){var a=e&&e.__esModule?function(){return e.default}:function(){return e};return t.d(a,"a",a),a},t.o=function(e,a){return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(e,a)},t.p="",t.w={},t(t.s=1036)}([function(e,a,t){try{var c=t(1);if("function"!=typeof c.inherits)throw"";e.exports=c.inherits}catch(a){e.exports=t(1021)}},function(e,a){e.exports=__webpack_require__(3)},function(e,a,t){"use strict";var c="function"==typeof Symbol

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.runMain (module.js:604:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:389:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

Can anyone tell me what is the problem here?

EDIT While using truffle, truffle init, truffle unbox webpack, I am getting the same error.

Answer 1

RESOLVED:

If you are encountering the same error, please check that your node is updated to the latest version. My node was updated to 6.11.3 while the LTS was 8.

Download Here

Release Schedule Here (LTS)

You can check node version using

node -v

and npm version using

npm -v

Answer 2

A way to "bypass" this issue would be using a boilerplate from here, with regards to the tutorial doing truffle unbox webpack would probably be the best prerequisite for what the tutorial is explaining. For everything front end related, you could then basically just edit everything according to your tutorials' needs.