after running the install from the documentation here: https://www.bookthatapp.com/docs/api/v1/index.html?javascript#introduction and following the require example, node throws the error without allowing anything else to happen. 
after running the install from the documentation here:
https://www.bookthatapp.com/docs/api/v1/index.html?javascript#introduction
and following the require example,

node throws the error without allowing anything else to happen.