This.options = options ? {};

[Kushagra_Kesav]

Hello @Najib_Shah / @Abu_Said_Shabib / @Ramirez_Gomar_Sergio_Jose

Welcome to the MongoDB Community forums

As @turivishal mentioned the minimum supported Node.js version is now 14.20.1 for MongoDB Node.js Driver v5. So, please upgrade the node version to 14.20.1 or higher to resolve the issue.

@turivishal

The new minimum supported Node.js version is now 14.20.1

However, you can refer to my response here where I’ve explained the cause of the this.options = options ?? {}; error.

Not able to connect to database from the VS Code

Hi @shrikant_kumar1, Welcome to the MongoDB Community forums The following error is occurring due to the compatibility issue with the Nullish coalescing operator (??) which is introduced in node version 14.0.0 and above. Please refer to mdn web docs for version compatibility. Here, the internal MongoDB node module package is utilizing this operator, resulting in the error. Here, Nullish coalescing operator (??) is a logical operator that returns its right-hand side operan…

I hope it helps!

Regards,
Kushagra