npm ERR! Unexpected token < in JSON at position 12842

Question

Every time I try installing any package or even if I try doing npm install I keep getting this error. I have no idea why I am getting the error. I am totally ne

Answer 1

It's because of a package-lock.json merge conflict.

Delete the file, delete node_modules, and run npm install to solve the problem:

rm package-lock.json
rm -rf node_modules
npm install