I developed a project on top of this, and a few months ago I started having this problem. For a while I though it was a bug on my end, but after downloading a fresh clone of this project it seems I can replicate the bug. Here is the output of running docker-compose up on the first example, 01-express-nodemon:

Starting 01expressnodemon_web_1 ...
Starting 01expressnodemon_web_1 ... done
Attaching to 01expressnodemon_web_1
web_1 |
web_1 | > [email protected] start /src
web_1 | > nodemon -L app/bin/www
web_1 |
web_1 |
web_1 | /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon/node_modules/update-notifier/index.js:2
web_1 | const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
web_1 | ^^^^^
web_1 | SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
web_1 | at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
web_1 | at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
web_1 | at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
web_1 | at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
web_1 | at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
web_1 | at require (module.js:380:17)
web_1 | at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon/bin/nodemon.js:15:1)
web_1 | at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
web_1 | at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
web_1 | at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
web_1 |
web_1 | npm ERR! Linux 4.10.0-33-generic
web_1 | npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
web_1 | npm ERR! node v0.10.38
web_1 | npm ERR! npm v2.11.1
web_1 | npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
web_1 | npm ERR! [email protected] start: nodemon -L app/bin/www
web_1 | npm ERR! Exit status 8
web_1 | npm ERR!
web_1 | npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'nodemon -L app/bin/www'.
web_1 | npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the app package,
web_1 | npm ERR! not with npm itself.
web_1 | npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
web_1 | npm ERR! nodemon -L app/bin/www
web_1 | npm ERR! You can get their info via:
web_1 | npm ERR! npm owner ls app
web_1 | npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
web_1 |
web_1 | npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
web_1 | npm ERR! /src/npm-debug.log
01expressnodemon_web_1 exited with code 1