JSON.parse can be dangerous

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https://github.com/fac-12/BudgetPlanner/blob/master/public/index.js#L22

If the xhr.responseText is a string here, JSON.parse will fail with Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token a in JSON at position 0, which will break things.

So its good to 'wrap' JSON.parse in a try/catch block, see below for an example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29797946/handling-bad-json-parse-in-node-safely

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