npm ERR! registry error parsing json - While trying to install Cordova for Ionic Framework in Windows 8

Question

I was trying to instal Ionic framework in my Windows 8 system and was trying to install Cordova first.

I\'m getting this error while trying to install Cordova, that

Answer 1

npm config set registry "http://registry.npmjs.org"

Solved the issue for me. Note that it wouldn't accecpt a forward slash at the end of the url and it had to be entered exactly as shown above.

Answer 2

pls remove the

HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY proxy from the npmrc file

Answer 3

In my case artifactory was down. npm install command is throwing below error.

npm ERR! registry error parsing json

Answer 4

npm install -g @angular/cli --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ worked for me

Answer 5

In my case, I had a very old version of npm. Upgrading npm using sudo npm install npm -g fixed the problem for me. Additionally I also did rm -rf node_modules and npm cache clean and npm config set registry "http://registry.npmjs.org/"

Answer 6

My npm install worked fine, but I had this problem with npm update. To fix it, I had to run npm cache clean and then npm cache clear.