Problems building web site on a Windows machine

[mike-barnett]

I installed node.js and npm for Windows and am using git bash for executing the npm commands. I'm running into lots of problems: first off is that it seems to kick off all scripts in a windows command prompt and so things like "A && B" fail because the windows command prompt doesn't understand the double-ampersand. Even if I type the commands separately, I'm getting errors like "ParseError: 'import' and 'export' may appear only with 'sourceType: module'" when I execute the "browersify" command from the package.json file.

I'm new to the whole node.js and npm world so feel free to point me at any documentation I should read.