I am trying to compile a .ts to .js

I have tsconfig.json as below

{

"compilerOptions": {

    "target": "es5",

    "module": "commonjs",

    "sourceMap": true,

    "outFile": "build/test.js"

},

"exclude": [

    "node_modules"

    ]

}

below is my package.json

{

    "name": "test",

    "version": "1.0.0",

    "description": "",

    "main": "index.js",

    "scripts": {

        "test": "echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1"

    },

    "author": "",

    "license": "ISC",

    "dependencies": {

        "tsc": "^1.20150623.0",

        "typescript": "^2.4.2"

    }

}

and the auto generated tasks.json looks like below

{

// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558

// for the documentation about the tasks.json format

"version": "2.0.0",

"tasks": [

    {

        "type": "typescript",

        "tsconfig": "tsconfig.json",

        "problemMatcher": [

            "$tsc"

        ],

        "group": {

            "kind": "build",

            "isDefault": true

        }

    }]

}

When I try to run the build task, I am getting the below error

Executing task: <myprojloc>node_modules.bintsc.cmd  -p "<myprojloc>tsconfig.json" <



error TS5014: Failed to parse file '<myprojloc>/tsconfig.json/tsconfig.json': Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0.



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What I am doing wrong? Please, note I have added the versions in package.json