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Debugger stops at "SyntaxError: Unexpected token in JSON at position 1"

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I’m using Google Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (Official Build) (64-bit) and I’m unable to edit any of my files without the following error happening:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/hT3ts.png

I’m trying to edit the default files generated when create-react-app myapp is run.

It works fine on Google Chrome 58.0.3021.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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gaearoncommented, Feb 27, 2017

OK, I just looked at it, and this is coming from a fetch polyfill. However, as I mentioned earlier, there is no problem in this.

The error is intentionally thrown and caught. It should have zero effect on your code. It is not a crash because it gets caught.

If you’re wondering why debugger stops at it, it is because you left “Pause on Caught Exceptions” checked:

Uncheck it, and debugger won’t stop there.

If you’d rather leave it checked to stop in your code early, you may also right-click on the line that throws and choose “Never pause here”:

You’ll need to do this a couple more times since there are a few places where it could throw, but then you should be good and never pause there.

I hope this helps!

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Carpetfizzcommented, Feb 27, 2017

That did the trick, thank you so much for taking the time to look into it. My productivity has definitely increased 👍

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