New repo: await is an unexpected word?

[TheAutomaTom]

In trying to set up a quick demo on my new work pc, any script I run terminates with this error.

const rendererWatchServer = await createServer({
                            ^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word
    at Loader.moduleStrategy (internal/modules/esm/translators.js:88:18)
    at async link (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:41:21)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! vite-electron-builder@1.0.2 watch: `node scripts/watch.mjs`    
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 

Any ideas why? Ty!

[cawa-93]

Maybe you node.js doesnt support top-level await