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Quality Assurance

Posted by Jason Ngo
Jason Ngo
6,947 Points

Getting error declaring/requirig const selenium

This is the error I'm getting

const selenium = require("selenium-webdriver"); /home/dank/Desktop/selenium-basics/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:454 async execute(command) { ^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

Any thoughts?

2 Answers

Jason Ngo
Jason Ngo
6,947 Points
Jason Ngo
Jason Ngo
6,947 Points 
> const selenium =  require("selenium-webdriver");
/home/dank/Desktop/selenium-basics/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:454
  async execute(command) {
        ^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

>
Jason Ngo
Jason Ngo
6,947 Points
Jason Ngo
Jason Ngo
6,947 Points

I figured it out, I had to update Nodejs on Ubuntu