“SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0”

Question

In a React app component which handles Facebook-like content feeds, I am running into an error:

Feed.js:94 undefined \"parsererror\" \"SyntaxError: Un

Answer 1

The possibilities for this error are overwhelming.

In my case, I found that the issue was adding the homepage filed in package.json caused the issue.

Worth checking: in package.json change:

homepage: "www.example.com"

to

hompage: ""