unexpected reserved word import in node.js

Question

import is a part of ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) standard and as Amit above mentioned it is not currently implemented natively in Nodejs.

So you can use transpiler like babel to run your es6 script

npm install babel

An example based on this answer

app.js

 import {helloworld,printName} from './es6'
 helloworld();
 printName("John");

es6.js

 module.exports = {
    helloworld: function() { console.log('hello world!'); },
    printName: function(name) { console.log(name); }
}

And using require hook in start.js

require("babel/register");
var app = require("./app.js");

And start your app as

node start.js

EDIT
The above answer was base on babel v5.8.23. For babel >= v6

Use require hook in start.js as

require('babel-core/register');
require("./app.js");

Also, transformations are not enabled by default. So you will need to install a preset. In this case use es2015

npm install babel-preset-es2015

And use it in a .babelrc file in root folder

{
   "presets": ["es2015"]
}