ncu -m bower -- Fails with unexpected token error.

[atom0s]

Trying to use either of the following commands yields the error below:

ncu -m bower
ncu --packageManager bower

Unhandled rejection SyntaxError: Unexpected token 
    at Object.parse (native)
    at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\node_modules\bower-json\lib\json.js:42:29
    at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
    at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm-check-updates\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
    at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:404:3)

Screenshot of the error:
http://i.imgur.com/d3u4qY1.png

Works fine with normal npm, but with bower I cannot get it to work on the latest version of ncu. (v2.6.5 as of this issue report.)

[raineorshine]

Hi! Thanks for reporting. Can you provide the contents of your bower.json.
It looks like saying it is invalid json. You may want to verify that it is
syntactically correct.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM atom0s [email protected] wrote:

Trying to use either of the following commands yields the error below:

ncu -m bower
ncu --packageManager bower

Unhandled rejection SyntaxError: Unexpected token 
at Object.parse (native)
at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\node_modules\bower-json\lib\json.js:42:29
at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
at C:\Users\atom0s\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm-check-updates\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose as oncomplete

Screenshot of the error:
http://i.imgur.com/d3u4qY1.png

Works fine with normal npm, but with bower I cannot get it to work on the
latest version of ncu. (v2.6.5 as of this issue report.)

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[atom0s]

The bower.json file for the erroring project is:

{
  "name": "ProjectNameRemoved",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "angular": "~1.4.9",
    "angular-ellipsis": "~0.1.6",
    "angular-moment": "~0.10.3",
    "angular-summernote": "~0.8.1",
    "animate.css": "~3.5.1",
    "bootstrap": "~3.3.6",
    "font-awesome": "~4.5.0",
    "jquery": "~2.2.0",
    "jquery-geocomplete": "~1.6.5",
    "ngInfiniteScroll": "~1.2.1",
    "twitter-bootstrap-wizard": "https://github.com/VinceG/twitter-bootstrap-wizard.git#~1.0.0",
    "jquery-validation": "jquery.validate#~1.13.0",
    "angular-ui-bootstrap-datetimepicker": "~0.14.4",
    "ng-currency": "~0.9.2",
    "angular-ui": "~0.4.0",
    "summernote": "~0.8.1",
    "modernizr": "~2.8.1",
    "moment": "~2.11.1",
    "smoothscroll-for-websites": "^1.4.2",
    "jquery.tagcloud.js": "https://github.com/addywaddy/jquery.tagcloud.js.git",
    "kbwood_countdown": "2.0.1",
    "jquery-deparam": "^0.5.1",
    "Slidebars": "^0.10.3"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "angular": "~1.4.9",
    "moment": "~2.11.1"
  },
  "overrides": {
    "jquery-deparam": {
      "main": [
        "jquery-deparam.js"
      ]
    },
    "bootstrap": {
      "main": [
        "less/bootstrap.less",
        "fonts/*",
        "dist/js/bootstrap.js"
      ]
    },
    "font-awesome": {
      "main": [
        "fonts/*",
        "less/font-awesome.less"
      ]
    },
    "angular-ui": {
      "main": [
        "build/angular-ui.js"
      ]
    },
    "jquery.tagcloud.js": {
      "main": [
        "jquery.tagcloud.js"
      ]
    },
    "kbwood_countdown": {
      "main": [
        "jquery.plugin.js",
        "jquery.countdown.js"
      ]
    },
    "Slidebars": {
      "main": [
        "dist/slidebars.css",
        "dist/slidebars.js"
      ]
    }
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "chai": "~3.5.0",
    "mocha": "~2.4.5"
  }
}

[raineorshine]

I've narrowed it down to kbwood_countdown...

[raineorshine]

$ bower info kbwood_countdown
bower not-cached    https://github.com/kbwood/countdown.git#*
bower resolve       https://github.com/kbwood/countdown.git#*
bower checkout      kbwood_countdown#2.0.2
bower EMALFORMED    Failed to read /var/folders/6q/pxzpp6mx459fkp_cbm6ns09m0000gn/T/raine/bower/e92da5830629c95ba39931e2f02d38ba-87371-iUyJGS/bower.json

Additional error details:
Unexpected token

[raineorshine]

Bingo: kbwood/countdown#67

[raineorshine]

Solution: Revert to kbwood_countdown v2.0.1 until a patch comes out for v2.0.2. You can use ncu --reject kbwood_countdown to exclude the package from ncu in the mean time.