Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' in Angular 7.3 and .net 8 Application

I recently migrated Angular/.net 8 Application from .net core 2.1 to .net 8. The application runs fine in my debug mode. However, when I deployed the application to IIS, it bombs with the 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' error.As I compared the updated application behaviour to the current one, I see that the angular built JS scripts runtime*, pollyfills*, main* and scripts* are HTML files rather than JS files. These same files in the dist folder look as JS files upon inspection. What is the cause of this? I checked the pathing of the files and the it's same angular file structure in both apps.

Any lights shed on this is greatly appreciated.

• Used dotnet publish command
• Used VS 2022 publish command also to generate the deployment package to no avail.
• Copied over dist folder with the dist folder in my machine.

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