Firebase's node module won't compile

[johnnyman727]

Code:

// Import the interface to Tessel hardware
var tessel = require('tessel'),
    Firebase = require('firebase');

Output:

$ tessel run index.js
TESSEL! Connected to TM-00-02-f0009a30-00694742-48b065c2.
INFO Bundling directory /Users/chris/tessel (~184.31 KB)
INFO Deploying bundle (286.00 KB)...
INFO Running script...
[T]: src/colony/lua/colony-node.lua:1: /app/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:1: '=' expected near 'k'

package.json:

{
  "name": "cool-firebase-tessel-thing",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "firebase": "1.0.x"
  }
}

[cbraynor]

seen using the latest tessel-firmware-v0.3.0-7-g2e2e264.bin