“SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0”

Question

In a React app component which handles Facebook-like content feeds, I am running into an error:

Feed.js:94 undefined \"parsererror\" \"SyntaxError: Un

Answer 1

After spending a lot of time with this, I found out that in my case the problem was having "homepage" defined on my package.json file made my app not work on firebase (same 'token' error). I created my react app using create-react-app, then I used the firebase guide on the READ.me file to deploy to github pages, realized I had to do extra work for the router to work, and switched to firebase. github guide had added the homepage key on package.json and caused the deploy issue.