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

VladS answer solved my problem. I was also using AWS Amplify Console for my Angular App.

You can also have a look at the Content-Type in the response headers of your manifest file. It should NOT be text/html. If it is, you have to change your server configuration to serve the file in the right Content-Type. More info

Angular names the Manifest-File "manifest.webmanifest". So I also had to go to the "Rewrites and redirects" Page in the Amplify Console and edited the existing entry like so:

Source address

(I added json|webmanifest)