If you are coding in JavaScript, React, or any other JavaScript library/framework, you would have come across the following errors:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
When does this error occur?
This error occurs when you are trying to parse a string to JSON and the string is not parsable. In other words, it happens when you pass an invalid JSON string to JSON.parse[] function.
Try executing the following code in the browser console:
JSON.parse[""]
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You will see the following error:
So the error is telling that it is seeing a string