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

For me , removing package.lock did not work

Try the following steps

1- set registry to https://registry.npmjs.org/. http did not work and had to change it to https

npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

2- I am behind a corporate firewall so i had to setup my proxy and https-proxy accordingly in the format - http://yourproxyurl:port

npm config set proxy http://someproxyurl.com:8080
npm config set https-proxy http://someproxyurl.com:8080

3 - Set ssl to false

npm config set strict-ssl false

These steps worked for me. Hope this helps.