Sendgrid-nodejs: Error de sintaxis en el código de ejemplo sendgrid node.js, durante el tiempo de ejecución.

Resumen de asuntos

Recibo un error de sintaxis en mail.js cuando copié el código sendgrid de muestra e intenté ejecutarlo en mi servidor

Pasos para reproducir

1. npm install @ sendgrid / mail
2. variable de entorno exportada SENDGRID_API_KEY en mi entorno bash
3. Copió el código de muestra

const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');
sgMail.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
const msg = {
  to: '[email protected]',
  from: '[email protected]',
  subject: 'Sending with SendGrid is Fun',
  text: 'and easy to do anywhere, even with Node.js',
  html: '<strong>and easy to do anywhere, even with Node.js</strong>',
};
sgMail.send(msg);

Último paso:
Ejecuta el código

# node sendgrid.js
/root/scripts/node_modules/@sendgrid/mail/src/mail.js:6
const {
      ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:373:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/scripts/sendgrid.js:1:78)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)

Detalles técnicos:

# npm list |grep sendgrid
├─┬ @sendgrid/[email protected]
│ ├─┬ @sendgrid/[email protected]
│ │ ├── @sendgrid/[email protected] deduped
│ └─┬ @sendgrid/[email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/scripts/node_modules/jsprim/node_modules/assert-plus
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/scripts/node_modules/verror/node_modules/assert-plus
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/scripts/node_modules/dashdash/node_modules/assert-plus
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/scripts/node_modules/getpass/node_modules/assert-plus
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/scripts/node_modules/sshpk/node_modules/assert-plus

# npm -v 
5.3.0
# node -v
v4.8.4
# echo $SENDGRID_API_KEY
SG.jyr8dVjFTBO4MayuTAS_zA.7a9Qg_XXXXXX