Problem with ng serve when angular-cli.json is modified

[DerekJDev]

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OS?

Windows 10

Versions.

Ng Version:
1.0.0-beta.30

Node version:
v7.5.0

Repro steps.

I changed the angular-cli.json file to add the jquery scripts

The log given by the failure.

Error that gets returned:
Parsing angular-cli.json failed. Please make sure your angular-cli.json is valid JSON. Error:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token  in JSON at position 0

Mention any other details that might be useful.

When I try to add a third party global script (Jquery) is send back an invalid json error. It all did this when I modified the tsconfig file to add typings for hammerjs.

Here is the angular-cli.json file:

{
  "project": {
    "version": "1.0.0-beta.30",
    "name": "m25-app"
  },
  "apps": [
    {
      "root": "src",
      "outDir": "dist",
      "assets": [
        "assets",
        "favicon.ico"
      ],
      "index": "index.html",
      "main": "main.ts",
      "polyfills": "polyfills.ts",
      "test": "test.ts",
      "tsconfig": "tsconfig.json",
      "prefix": "app",
      "styles": [
        "styles.sass"
      ],
      "scripts": [
        "../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"
      ],
      "environments": {
        "source": "environments/environment.ts",
        "dev": "environments/environment.ts",
        "prod": "environments/environment.prod.ts"
      }
    }
  ],
  "e2e": {
    "protractor": {
      "config": "./protractor.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "lint": [
    {
      "files": "src/**/*.ts",
      "project": "src/tsconfig.json"
    },
    {
      "files": "e2e/**/*.ts",
      "project": "e2e/tsconfig.json"
    }
  ],
  "test": {
    "karma": {
      "config": "./karma.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "defaults": {
    "styleExt": "sass",
    "prefixInterfaces": false,
    "inline": {
      "style": false,
      "template": false
    },
    "spec": {
      "class": false,
      "component": true,
      "directive": true,
      "module": false,
      "pipe": true,
      "service": true
    }
  }
}

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[grizzm0]

It might be your editor that adds weird characters to the file at save. Perhaps a byte order mark or similar. Please use UTF-8 without BOM if your editor is set to UTF-8 with BOM.

[DerekJDev]

I was using Visual Studio Community 2017 so I scrapped that and started a new project using VSCode to modify the code. Now everything works just fine!

[j-Cis]

Hello I too have this problem and in my situation, his start with enter proposition command from generate new projest from cli 31 ng set --global packageManager=yarn'.

[joe-vella]

Visual Studio 2017: Tools | Options | Text Editor | General: uncheck Auto-detect UTF-8 encoding without signature and Follow project coding conventions. If you file was modified, copy a new one from another untouched project.

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