What is @types/parse5?
@types/parse5 provides TypeScript type definitions for the parse5 library, which is a fast and fault-tolerant HTML parser. It allows developers to parse HTML documents into a tree structure, manipulate the tree, and serialize it back to HTML.
What are @types/parse5's main functionalities?
Parsing HTML
This feature allows you to parse an HTML string into a Document object. The resulting object represents the entire HTML document as a tree structure.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const document = parse5.parse('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi</body></html>');
console.log(document);
Serializing HTML
This feature allows you to serialize a Document object back into an HTML string. This is useful for converting the manipulated tree structure back to HTML.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const document = parse5.parse('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi</body></html>');
const html = parse5.serialize(document);
console.log(html);
Tree Adapters
Tree adapters allow you to customize the tree structure that parse5 generates. This feature is useful for integrating parse5 with other libraries or frameworks that use different tree structures.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const treeAdapter = require('parse5/lib/tree-adapters/default');
const document = parse5.parse('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi</body></html>', { treeAdapter });
console.log(document);
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cheerio
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