Ember-CLI v0.0.44 project not building with a "Use of const in strict mode." error message

Question

I need to update a template in a fairly outdated ember project (its about 5 years old) but I'm unable to build it.

Here is the working environment:

Nodejs     v0.10.46 (via NVM)
NPM        v2.15.1
Ember-CLI  v0.0.44
Ember      1.8.1
Bower

Here are the contents of the package.json file:

{
  "name": "xxxxx",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "directories": {
    "doc": "doc",
    "test": "test"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "ember server",
    "build": "ember build",
    "test": "ember test"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-cli",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">= 0.10.0"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "MIT",
  "devDependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.2.0",
    "broccoli-asset-rev": "0.0.17",
    "broccoli-ember-hbs-template-compiler": "^1.6.1",
    "connect-restreamer": "^1.0.0",
    "ember-cli": "0.0.44",
    "ember-cli-ember-data": "0.1.0",
    "ember-cli-ic-ajax": "0.1.1",
    "ember-cli-inject-live-reload": "^1.0.2",
    "ember-cli-qunit": "0.1.0",
    "express": "^4.8.5",
    "glob": "^4.0.5"
  }
}

Here are the contents of the bower.json file:

{
  "name": "eam-ui",
  "dependencies": {
    "handlebars": "~1.3.0",
    "ember": "1.8.1",
    "jquery": "^1.11.0",
    "ember-resolver": "~0.1.7",
    "loader": "stefanpenner/loader.js#1.0.1",
    "ember-cli-shims": "stefanpenner/ember-cli-shims#0.0.3",
    "ember-cli-test-loader": "rwjblue/ember-cli-test-loader#0.0.4",
    "ember-load-initializers": "stefanpenner/ember-load-initializers#0.0.2",
    "ember-qunit": "0.1.8",
    "ember-qunit-notifications": "0.0.4",
    "qunit": "~1.15.0",
    "foundation": "~5.4.7",
    "ember-i18n": "~2.2.1",
    "cldr": "~1.0.2",
    "es5-shim": "~4.0.1",
    "e164-phones-countries": "~1.0.3",
    "FileSaver.js": "koffsyrup/FileSaver.js"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "jquery": "^1.11.0"
  }
}

Building the app produces the following output:

ember build
version: 0.0.44

/Users/xxxxxx/Documents/proj1050/xxxxx/node_modules/ember-cli-inject-live-reload/index.js:3
const buildLiveReloadPath = require('clean-base-url');
^^^^^
Use of const in strict mode.
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    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 Function.Addon.lookup (/Users/xxxxxx/Documents/proj1050/xxxxx/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/models/addon.js:270:19)

I know this project is SUPER outdated. Any thoughts on what I can do resolve this build issue? Or should I start planning my escape???

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Yes this is old. :)

You can fix this one particular issue by changing one line in package.json from:

"ember-cli-inject-live-reload": "^1.0.2",

to

"ember-cli-inject-live-reload": "1.0.3",

Good luck.