throwing and rethrowing our own errors

let json = '{ "age": 30 }'; // incomplete data

try {

  let user = JSON.parse(json); // <-- no errors

  if (!user.name) {
    throw new SyntaxError("Incomplete data: no name"); // (*)
  }

  alert( user.name );

} catch(e) {
  alert( "JSON Error: " + e.message ); // JSON Error: Incomplete data: no name
}

let json = '{ "age": 30 }'; // incomplete data
try {

  let user = JSON.parse(json);

  if (!user.name) {
    throw new SyntaxError("Incomplete data: no name");
  }

  blabla(); // unexpected error

  alert( user.name );

} catch(e) {

  if (e.name == "SyntaxError") {
    alert( "JSON Error: " + e.message );
  } else {
    throw e; // rethrow (*)
  }

}