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I'm getting a strange error as

./src/index.js Line 56:15: Parsing error: '>' expected

I followed the official guide by create-react-app for Adding TypeScript to my existing Create React App project. And after changing just the two .js files(index and App) to .tsx, the project compilation is getting failed.

I uninstalled the global create-react-app by following this troubleshooting guide

index.tsx file

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
ReactDOM.render(
  <App store={store} persistor={persistor} basename={PUBLIC_URL} />,
  document.getElementById("root")
);

Note: I have changed my index.js file to index.tsx but still getting error for index.js. I guess it's throwing error after compilation to .js

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  • Add your App.tsx and Index.tsx? Commented Aug 24, 2020 at 9:53
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    Please include the content of the relevant line (./src/index.js Line 56) Commented Aug 24, 2020 at 10:22

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/src/index.js Line 56:15: Parsing error: '>' expected

You are using JSX in a .js file. Rename the file to .jsx (or even better `.tsx).

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You can compare to a TypeScript app by npx create-react-app example --template typescript 🌹

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I already changed my index.js to index.tsx and App.js to App.tsx
If you are still getting an error in src/index.js even though the file no longer exists, just close and restart the process giving you the error.
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After a useless struggle of 3 hours I found the root cause of error :)

As I mentioned earlier in the question I removed global create-react-app package to avoid problems but that created the problem. I don't know why but when, I reinstalled the create-react-app, the problem is resolved!

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