NPM Install Error:Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '…nt-webpack-plugin“:”0'

Question

When Creating a new Angular 5 project:

node version: 8.9.2

npm version: 5.5.1

My Command is

npm install -g @angular/cli

Answer 1

Npm uses Cache for downloading new packages for you. You need to clear your npm cache. use following command to clean :

npm cache clean --force

then normally use your npm install command e.g.

npm install -g @angular/cli