Date selector component crashes shiny process on invalid input

[zackverham]

This issue is replicable on the component gallery in the docs:

https://shiny.posit.co/py/components/inputs/date-range-selector/

Rather than selecting a date through the calendar widget, if you manually clear the date from the text input (with the intention of typing in a valid date), the Python process will attempt to parse the empty string as a date and emit an error which breaks the app: