Invalid JSON character when running ng serve

Question

I am getting following error when running ng serve...

PS F:\\Projects\\RecipeApp> ng serve
Invalid JSON character: \"\\\"\" at 76:13.
Error: Invalid JSON char         


        

Answer 1

In my case the problem was Visual Studio 2017 adding UTF-8 BOM characters to angular.json after I edited the file.

Permanent solution for Visual Studio and Angular CLI was to open the file once and save as UTF-8 without signature

1. Go to File -> Save As.

2. Then on Save button click on triangle and click Save with Encoding....

3. From Encodings dropdown select UTF-8 Without signature -> Click OK.