Syntax Error in Angular App: Unexpected token <

Question

I have an Angular app which runs perfectly in my local and production environment.. After a tiny change I made, I ran the app locally and it works fine.. Then I built the pr

Answer 1

Got this error as well using angular with express.

I guess when you build an angular project the project is stored in 'dist/the-app' not just 'dist' so this solved my problem on express.

// Point static path to dist
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'dist/the-app')));

for me, this error was due to not setting the proper path of the built application.