SyntaxError: Unexpected String, in line 1 of start.coffee when running smog

[Jared Pavan]

# npm install smog -g
# smog

Returns:

/usr/lib/node_modules/smog/start.coffee:1
exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { express = require "express"
                                                                     ^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected string
  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> (/usr/lib/node_modules/smog/bin/smog:4:1)
  at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
  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 Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
  at startup (node.js:119:16)
  at node.js:902:3

[contra]

This project is deprecated but this is an easy fix. The coffee-script version updated and broke this.

[Jared Pavan]

Ahh, k. That makes sense. Thank you.