EMALFORMED error when trying to register bower.json file

Question

I\'m having trouble registering my bower.json file at Bower. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When I try to register my project at Bower using

Answer 1

Your bower json file (as visible here: https://raw.github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js/2.4.3/bower.json) contains a leading invisible unicode character (likely a BOM).

This is visible in curl output: curl https://raw.github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js/2.4.3/bower.json

Start your bower.json file over from scratch, and use an editor that doesn't add crap :-).