Chrome says my extension's manifest file is missing or unreadable

Question

I\'m a new chrome extension developer, and I was going through the Chrome tutorial on making a \"Hello World\" extension, here\'s my code:

     {
      \"name\":         


        

Answer 1

In my case it was the problem of building the extension, I was pointing at an extension src (with manifest and everything) but without a build.

If you run into this scenario run npm i then npm build