this seems to be an issue with bad typings - ideally `JSON.parse()` would return `unknown` and then it wouldn't lie to you, but that would probably break a lot

this seems to be an issue with bad typings - ideally `JSON.parse()` would return `unknown` and then it wouldn't lie to you, but that would probably break a lot of people's code. EDIT: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/26188 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/26188