diff --git a/client/modules/IDE/components/PreviewFrame.jsx b/client/modules/IDE/components/PreviewFrame.jsx
index 5627a7a9..6f28cc99 100644
--- a/client/modules/IDE/components/PreviewFrame.jsx
+++ b/client/modules/IDE/components/PreviewFrame.jsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import srcDoc from 'srcdoc-polyfill';
 
 import loopProtect from 'loop-protect';
+import { JSHINT } from 'jshint';
 import { getBlobUrl } from '../actions/files';
 import { resolvePathToFile } from '../../../../server/utils/filePath';
 
@@ -157,10 +158,26 @@ class PreviewFrame extends React.Component {
     const scriptsInHTML = sketchDoc.getElementsByTagName('script');
     const scriptsInHTMLArray = Array.prototype.slice.call(scriptsInHTML);
     scriptsInHTMLArray.forEach((script) => {
-      script.innerHTML = loopProtect(script.innerHTML); // eslint-disable-line
+      script.innerHTML = this.jsPreprocess(script.innerHTML); // eslint-disable-line
     });
   }
 
+  jsPreprocess(jsText) {
+    let newContent = jsText;
+    // check the code for js errors before sending it to strip comments
+    // or loops.
+    JSHINT(newContent);
+
+    if (!JSHINT.errors) {
+      newContent = decomment(newContent, {
+        ignore: /noprotect/g,
+        space: true
+      });
+      newContent = loopProtect(newContent);
+    }
+    return newContent;
+  }
+
   injectLocalFiles() {
     const htmlFile = this.props.htmlFile.content;
     let scriptOffs = [];
@@ -289,12 +306,8 @@ class PreviewFrame extends React.Component {
         }
       }
     });
-    newContent = decomment(newContent, {
-      ignore: /noprotect/g,
-      space: true
-    });
-    newContent = loopProtect(newContent);
-    return newContent;
+
+    return this.jsPreprocess(newContent);
   }
 
   resolveCSSLinksInString(content, files) {