Manifest: Line: 1, column: 1, Syntax error on Chrome browser

I had the same problem when I moved my Codesandbox project to local. In my case, there was no manifest.json file in the public folder.
I solved it by adding the default manifest.json that create-react-app generates:

{
  "short_name": "CloseWeUI",
  "name": "The front-end UI for CloseWe",
  "icons": [
    {
      "src": "favicon.ico",
      "sizes": "64x64 32x32 24x24 16x16",
      "type": "image/x-icon"
    }
  ],
  "start_url": ".",
  "display": "standalone",
  "theme_color": "#000000",
  "background_color": "#ffffff"
}