ng generate component giving error “Unexpected token / in JSON at position 629”

Question

I just cloned an angular 6 project from bitbucket, did npm install and all the related tasks, it seems to be working well, but when I try to generate a new comp

Answer 1

Probably a problem in your angular.json somewhere, or maybe an encoding issue with the file or else a bug in Angular CLI. This is a reasonable place to start to investigate (one of the many Angular CLI github issues related to unexpected token errors)...https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/10880