Manifest: Line: 1, column: 1, Syntax error on Chrome browser

Question

I have a react app that built through npm run build. GET and POST request from the front-end to back-end gives status 200 but I am getting a weird error that may cause all the i

Answer 1

As I added password protection to a developer-only page of mine, I suddenly started getting "manifest line 1 column 1 syntax error" (manifest.json) errors.

I am also using AWS Amplify as well as Create React App to build my app. I tried all of the solutions above, but nothing helped.

The one thing that did help was adding one property to the link to my manifest.json in my index.html.

To solve this, I added crossorigin="use-credentials"*, like below: