ng generate component giving error “Unexpected token / in JSON at position 629”

Question

I just cloned an angular 6 project from bitbucket, did npm install and all the related tasks, it seems to be working well, but when I try to generate a new comp

Answer 1

Check if you accidentally made a comment. Open up angular.json and look for '/' on the line or 'position' specified. JSON does not support comments.