simple node.js example from developer works

I am attempting to create a hello world app from this developerworks
article:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-native-js-app-ibmi-with-nodejs/

step 3 values:
$

node -v

v6.11.5
$

npm -v

3.10.10
$

my js file: called sample.js, CCSID = 37
************Beginning of data**************
var http = require('http');
var ip = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" ;
var port = 53591 ;
var webserver = http.createServer((req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World with node\n');
});
webserver.listen(port, ip);
console.log('Server running at http://' + ip + ':' + port);
************End of Data********************

when I tried to run node:

node '/home/gmagnuson/sample.js'

/home/gmagnuson/sample.js:1

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^



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 Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)

at Module.load (module.js:487:32)

at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)

at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)

at run (bootstrap_node.js:383:7)

at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

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