Perl structure to Javacript-ready JSON

Jeppe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed monks, I'm essentially trying to escape the contents of a JSON structure.

my $hashref = {
   abc => "abc'abc"
};
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This should become

{"abc":"abc\'abc"}
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, and it must work for blessed references as well. I'm currently using the JSON module, but I'm not married to it. Ideally, this would have been resolved by a hook in the JSON module - but that does not seem to be available. What other options do I have?

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