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@babel/helper-regex
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The @babel/helper-regex package is part of the Babel toolchain, designed to help with the manipulation and generation of regular expressions in JavaScript code transformations. It provides utility functions that simplify common tasks related to regular expressions, such as ensuring flags are unique and correctly ordered, which is particularly useful when developing custom Babel plugins that deal with code transformations involving regex patterns.
Ensure regex flags are unique and correctly ordered
This feature allows developers to ensure that the flags passed to a RegExp object are unique and correctly ordered, avoiding runtime errors and ensuring consistent behavior across different environments.
const { hasRegexChars, regexify } = require('@babel/helper-regex');
const pattern = 'example';
const flags = 'gim';
const regex = regexify(pattern, flags); // Creates a RegExp object with unique, sorted flags
XRegExp provides augmented, extensible regular expressions. It offers additional syntax and features on top of the native JavaScript RegExp object, making it a more powerful and flexible option for complex regex operations. Compared to @babel/helper-regex, XRegExp focuses more on extending regex capabilities rather than assisting with code transformation tasks.
regexp-tree is a toolkit for working with regular expressions in JavaScript. It allows parsing, transforming, optimizing, and generating regular expressions. This package offers a broader range of functionalities related to direct manipulation and analysis of regex patterns compared to @babel/helper-regex, which is more focused on assisting with Babel plugin development.
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The npm package @babel/helper-regex receives a total of 756,324 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/helper-regex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/helper-regex demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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