Unable to run babel-node on Windows - node.js

Question

I would appreciate it if someone could help me figure out what is causing the error mentioned below.
I have a test Express project with a scripts section in package.json that looks like the following:
"scripts": {
"dev": "backpack",
"build": "backpack build",
"test-server": "babel-node node_modules/.bin/babel-istanbul cover node_modules/.bin/_mocha",
"test-server-ms": "babel-node.cmd node_modules/.bin/babel-istanbul.cmd cover node_modules/.bin/_mocha.cmd"
},
The test-server-ms script is what I am trying to execute:
babel-node.cmd node_modules/.bin/babel-istanbul.cmd cover
node_modules/.bin/_mocha.cmd "test/server"
This yields an error when parsing the babel-istanbul.cmd file:
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { #IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
^
SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (C:\Users\hqrsingh\Development\workspaces\vscode\express-es6-starter\node_modules\babel
-register\lib\node.js:152:7)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\hqrsingh\Development\workspaces\vscode\express-es6-starter\node_modules\babel-cli\lib\_babel-node.js:154:22)
The error occurs when the #IF directive is encountered which is part of a Windows .cmd script in node_modules\.bin\babel-istanbul.cmd:
#IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
"%~dp0\node.exe" "%~dp0\..\babel-istanbul\lib\cli.js" %*
) ELSE (
#SETLOCAL
#SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;%
node "%~dp0\..\babel-istanbul\lib\cli.js" %*
)
I am kicking all of this off within a Windows 7 Pro command shell via npm:
npm run-script test-server-ms test/server
For reference, here is the entire package.json file:
{
"name": "express-es6-starter",
"version": "2.0.0",
"description": "A complete boilerplate for Express.js development including unit test and code coverage.",
"main": "lib/index.js",
"scripts": {
"dev": "backpack",
"build": "backpack build",
"test-server": "babel-node node_modules/.bin/babel-istanbul cover node_modules/.bin/_mocha",
"test-server-ms": "babel-node.cmd node_modules/.bin/babel-istanbul.cmd cover node_modules/.bin/_mocha.cmd"
},
"pre-commit": [
"test-server"
],
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.14.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"babel": "^6.23.0",
"babel-cli": "^6.24.1",
"babel-istanbul": "^0.12.2",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.16.0",
"babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.24.1",
"backpack-core": "^0.0.7",
"chai": "^3.5.0",
"karma": "^1.7.0",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "^2.1.1",
"karma-jasmine": "^1.1.0",
"karma-phantomjs-launcher": "^1.0.4",
"mocha": "^3.2.0",
"phantomjs": "^2.1.7",
"pre-commit": "^1.2.2",
"webpack": "^1.14.0"
}
}

Answer 1

FWIW, I was able to solve this by avoiding the use of the babel-* modules entirely. I still do not know how one would go about executing platform specific scripts via npm or if that should even be encouraged.
Here is my entire package.json file:
{
"name": "express-es6-starter",
"version": "2.0.0",
"description": "A complete boilerplate for Express.js development including unit test and code coverage.",
"scripts": {
"start": "node ./build/main.js",
"clean-build": "rm -rf ./build/*",
"dev": "backpack dev",
"build": "backpack build",
"compile": "babel --presets es2015,stage-0 -d build/ src/",
"test-client-karma": "node ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start karma.conf.js || exit 0",
"test-client-mocha": "mocha test/client/*.js --require babel-register --reporter spec || exit 0",
"test-server": "mocha --compilers js:babel-core/register test/server/**/*.js",
"test": "npm run-script test-server; npm run-script test-client-mocha"
},
"pre-commit": [
"test-server"
],
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.14.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"babel-cli": "^6.24.1",
"babel-plugin-add-module-exports": "^0.2.1",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.24.1",
"backpack-core": "^0.0.7",
"brfs": "^1.4.3",
"browserify": "^14.3.0",
"browserify-shim": "^3.8.14",
"chai": "^3.5.0",
"child_process": "^1.0.2",
"jasmine-core": "^2.6.2",
"karma": "^1.7.0",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "^2.1.1",
"karma-browserify": "^5.1.1",
"karma-html-reporter": "^0.2.7",
"karma-jasmine": "^1.1.0",
"karma-mocha": "^1.3.0",
"karma-ng-scenario": "^1.0.0",
"karma-phantomjs-launcher": "^1.0.4",
"mocha": "^3.2.0",
"phantomjs": "^2.1.7",
"pre-commit": "^1.2.2",
"webpack": "^1.14.0",
"watchify": "^3.9.0"
}
}
This is the project structure that the above package.json is based upon: