TypeScript error TS5014: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0

Question

I am trying to compile a .ts to .js

I have tsconfig.json as below

{
\"compilerOptions\": {
    \"target\": \"es5\",
    \"module\": \"co         


        

Answer 1

I would like to put in that you also see this error when you forgot to add 'typescript' as a dependency.

npm install typescript

should fix that.

Note that this dependency is present in the package.json in the question.