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@es-joy/estraverse
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@es-joy/estraverse (estraverse) is
a fork of estraverse.
ECMAScript traversal functions from esmangle project.
You can find usage docs at wiki page.
The following code will output all variables declared at the root of a file.
estraverse.traverse(ast, {
enter (node, parent) {
if (node.type == 'FunctionExpression' || node.type == 'FunctionDeclaration')
return estraverse.VisitorOption.Skip;
},
leave (node, parent) {
if (node.type == 'VariableDeclarator')
console.log(node.id.name);
}
});
We can use this.skip, this.remove and this.break functions instead of using Skip, Remove and Break.
estraverse.traverse(ast, {
enter (node) {
this.break();
}
});
And estraverse provides estraverse.replace function. When returning node from enter/leave, current node is replaced with it.
const result = estraverse.replace(tree, {
enter (node) {
// Replace it with replaced.
if (node.type === 'Literal')
return replaced;
}
});
By passing visitor.keys mapping, we can extend estraverse traversing functionality.
// This tree contains a user-defined `TestExpression` node.
const tree = {
type: 'TestExpression',
// This 'argument' is the property containing the other **node**.
argument: {
type: 'Literal',
value: 20
},
// This 'extended' is the property not containing the other **node**.
extended: true
};
estraverse.traverse(tree, {
enter (node) { },
// Extending the existing traversing rules.
keys: {
// TargetNodeName: [ 'keys', 'containing', 'the', 'other', '**node**' ]
TestExpression: ['argument']
}
});
By passing visitor.fallback option, we can control the behavior when encountering unknown nodes.
// This tree contains a user-defined `TestExpression` node.
const tree = {
type: 'TestExpression',
// This 'argument' is the property containing the other **node**.
argument: {
type: 'Literal',
value: 20
},
// This 'extended' is the property not containing the other **node**.
extended: true
};
estraverse.traverse(tree, {
enter (node) { },
// Iterating the child **nodes** of unknown nodes.
fallback: 'iteration'
});
When visitor.fallback is a function, we can determine which keys to visit on each node.
// This tree contains a user-defined `TestExpression` node.
const tree = {
type: 'TestExpression',
// This 'argument' is the property containing the other **node**.
argument: {
type: 'Literal',
value: 20
},
// This 'extended' is the property not containing the other **node**.
extended: true
};
estraverse.traverse(tree, {
enter (node) { },
// Skip the `argument` property of each node
fallback(node) {
return Object.keys(node).filter((key) => {
return key !== 'argument';
});
}
});
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Yusuke Suzuki (twitter: @Constellation) and other contributors.
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ECMAScript JS AST traversal functions
The npm package @es-joy/estraverse receives a total of 66 weekly downloads. As such, @es-joy/estraverse popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @es-joy/estraverse demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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