Passing JSON from Laravel 5.1 Controller to JS (AngularJS) is Broken by Single Quotes

In our legacy code, data from a Laravel controller is sent to the view for use with Javascript thusly:

$scope.users = JSON.parse('{!! $users or "{}" !!}');

As you can imagine, since it brings the data in as a big JSON string surrounded by single quotes, if the data has a single quote in it, it breaks.

I'm going to renovate how we do it, but before embarking on such a quest, I wanted to see what methods or best practices to keep in mind, and want to know how other people bring in data from Laravel controllers to Javascript in the view.

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