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acorn-hammerhead
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This Acorn.js version contains only features used by TestCafe Hammerhead.
It also provides the following enhancements:
Drop-in replacement for Acorn.js.
See Acorn.js README for usage examples. Note that only a limited number of Acorn.js features are supported in this version.
FAQs
acorn.js parser adapted to TestCafe Hammerhead
The npm package acorn-hammerhead receives a total of 186,554 weekly downloads. As such, acorn-hammerhead popularity was classified as popular.
We found that acorn-hammerhead demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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