Manifest is not valid JSON. Line: 1, column: 1, Unexpected token

Question

keep getting this error: \"Manifest is not valid JSON. Line: 1, column: 1, Unexpected token.\" i don\'t understand what the issue is with my code? here is what i have so f

Answer 1

Content-type

Check the Content-Type of manifest.json in the Network tab. This needs to be application/json instead of text/html.

If you have wrong content-type, you may need to configure the settings of your webserver to correctly serve json files.

In my case I had to add it to the nginx sites-enabled file:

location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|xml|svg|json)$