Issues with vanilla HttpErrorResponse

[erich5168]

Possible problem with the current vanilla repo? I have downloaded the repo and tried to run it through my terminal mvn spring-boot:run -Dserver.port=9000 but I got SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 at JSON.parse error.

I initially thought it was my angular that was running an old version so I upgraded to the following, but still having the same issue...

Angular: 6.1.8
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.8.3
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.8.3
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.8.3
@angular-devkit/build-webpack     0.8.3
@angular-devkit/core              0.8.3
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.8.3
@angular/cli                      6.2.3
@ngtools/webpack                  6.2.3
@schematics/angular               0.8.3
@schematics/update                0.8.3
rxjs                              6.2.2
typescript                        2.9.2
webpack                           4.19.1

With futher research I found that "Unexpected token < in JSON" is indicating that the return object is html and not JSON. Is anyone having the same problem?