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

I found this to error to be a broad instance of many possible errors. In our application that was using Jhipster generated project, We added google analytics in the index.html. We also tried matomo analytics. Inside the index.html we have script tags as well.

The error was that someone commented out a line of code in our google analytics snippet.

here is an example of the code where the error lived:

Notice the last three lines where there was . That cause the error for us.

In index.html script tag, to comment out a line we use \\ double back slash. Someone may have attempted to comment this line out using .

This is tricky cause it could have been anywhere.
But its always a good place to start in the index.html

Hope this helps a little.