The 'Getting Started' tutorial app doesn't work for me

[jeremypeters]

Just though I'd take a look at React Native, but I've failed at the first hurdle. I'm following the instructions in the getting started tutorial (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html), and when the app launched in the simulator I get the following error:

This is the contents of the launchPacker.command window:

~/Projects/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/packager ~ /Users/jezpeters/Projects/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/server/formatBanner.js:48 chalkFunction: (fn) => fn, ^^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token => at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16) at Module._compile (module.js:443:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10) at Module.load (module.js:355:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12) at Module.require (module.js:365:17) at require (module.js:384:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/jezpeters/Projects/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/server/checkNodeVersion.js:12:20) at Module._compile (module.js:460:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10) ~

OSX 10.11.5
Xcode 7.3.1
Node 5.2.0

Thanks.

[jeremypeters]

OK, the issue was at my end - I installed Node 6.3.0 and set NVM to use this in the terminal, but I guess the project for whatever reason was using a version I have installed that doesn't have the ES6 support and that caused the errors. To fix it I just had to set the default version to 6.3.0.