diff --git a/backend/server.js b/backend/server.js
index ded15b90ca54c2222c30a077a5b5f21dce3cfbb4..192d054cff1d243624dd5983cd5c7d7853c57b8c 100644
--- a/backend/server.js
+++ b/backend/server.js
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ const express = require("express");
 const logger = require("morgan");
 const cors = require("cors");
 const mongoose = require("mongoose");
-const jsonErrorHandler = require("./services/jsonErrorHandler");
 const indexRouter = require("./routes/index");
 const usersRouter = require("./routes/users");
 const routeNotFoundJsonHandler = require("./services/routeNotFoundJsonHandler");
+const jsonErrorHandler = require("./services/jsonErrorHandler");
 
 mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_DB_URL, {
   useNewUrlParser: true,
diff --git a/backend/services/jsonErrorHandler.js b/backend/services/jsonErrorHandler.js
index 0a379a251d431f68ff786361424090dda9f7c6d1..0a69a05c1887978f2e157a72675d2db1aaa42072 100644
--- a/backend/services/jsonErrorHandler.js
+++ b/backend/services/jsonErrorHandler.js
@@ -1,22 +1,16 @@
 // Custom error handler to send unhandled errors in JSON instead of HTML.
 // The error-handling middleware is a special type of Express middleware
 // that needs to have four arguments as opposed to a regular middleware.
-// eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
 const jsonErrorHandler = function (error, req, res, next) {
-  console.error(error);
-  if (res.headersSent) return next(error);
-
-  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
-    return res.status(500).json({
-      message: error.toString(),
-      stackTrace: error.stack,
-    });
-  } else {
-    // Hide error details in production to avoid security issues
-    return res.status(500).json({
-      message: "Internal server error",
-    });
+  if (!res.headersSent) {
+    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
+      res.status(500).json({ message: error.toString() });
+    } else {
+      // Hide error details in production to avoid security issues
+      res.status(500).json({ message: "Internal server error" });
+    }
   }
+  next(error);
 };
 
 module.exports = jsonErrorHandler;