Installation Error

[TomKremer]

Issue Description

Installation fails during babel process. I'm using node 6.11.4 as described with npm 3.10.10.

Steps to reproduce

• Download release 2.7.0 as zip
• Extract
• npm install

Expected Results

Installation without issues.

Actual Outcome

`
SyntaxError: src/Adapters/Files/FilesAdapter.js: Unexpected token (16:12)
14 | // database adapter.
15 |

16 | import type { Config } from '../../Config'
| ^
17 |
18 | export class FilesAdapter {
`

and

npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build script 'babel src/ -d lib/ --copy-files'. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the parse-server package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! babel src/ -d lib/ --copy-files

Environment Setup

• Server

  • parse-server version (Be specific! Don't say 'latest'.) : 2.7.0
  • Operating System: Mac 10.13.1
  • Hardware: Intel
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, Heroku, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc): localhost

• Database

  • MongoDB version: mlab
  • Storage engine: /
  • Hardware: /
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, mLab, ObjectRocket, Digital Ocean, etc): /

Logs/Trace

see Actual Outcome

[TomKremer]

🤦🏻‍♂️ (face palm)

I was missing the hidden system files (.babelrc etc.) in the project folder. It works as expected!