Problem with running ng-cli. SyntaxError: Unexpected token : in JSON at position 9...

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Versions.

Please run ng --version. If there’s nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here: v6.9.5

Repro steps.

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The log given by the failure.

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Installed ng-cli and it worked. But then I uninstalled ng-cli: npm -g uninstall @angular/cli npm cache clean.

After that installed ng-cli one more time: npm -g install @angular/cli@latest.

But using ng <some_command> have such error log all the time:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\ember-cli\l ib\models\project.js:537 throw reason; ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token : in JSON at position 9 at Object.parse (native) at Function.Project.closestSync (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm
node_modules@angular\cli\ember-cli\lib\models\project.js:505:16) at Function.Project.projectOrnullProject (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roa ming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\ember-cli\lib\models\project.js:532:20) at module.exports (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@ angular\cli\ember-cli\lib\cli\index.js:40:25) at module.exports (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@ angular\cli\lib\cli\index.js:39:10) at C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\bin
ng:135:5 at C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\node _modules\resolve\lib\async.js:47:14 at process (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular \cli\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:174:43) at ondir (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\c li\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:189:17) at load (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cl i\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:70:43) at onex (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cl i\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:93:31) at C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\node _modules\resolve\lib\async.js:23:47 at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)

For trying to solve that issue took next steps:

1. Uninstalled ng-cli by: npm -g uninstall @angular/cli npm cache clean

2.deleted all the node_modules, package.json in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming included folders npm and npm-cache.

1. Then I uninstalled the nodejs

2. restarted pc

3. installed nodejs again

4. installed ng-cli: npm -g install @angular/cli@latest

7 but then using ng new myNewApp have the error again

don’t know what there may be a problem.

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Have such log after ng-cli installing:

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules@a ngular\cli\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@ 1.1.1: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“win32”,“arch”:“x64”} )

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[Itsdenty]

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli#updating-angular-cli

[athapliyal]

Reinstalling node fixed it for me. Ensure to update both global and project versions.