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acorn-node
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the acorn javascript parser, preloaded with plugins for syntax parity with recent node versions
The acorn-node package is an extension of the popular Acorn JavaScript parser, tailored specifically for Node.js environments. It includes additional support for parsing Node.js-specific syntax and features, making it an ideal choice for developers working on Node.js applications who need to analyze or manipulate JavaScript code programmatically.
Parsing JavaScript
This feature allows you to parse a string of JavaScript code into an abstract syntax tree (AST), which can then be analyzed or manipulated. This is useful for tools that need to understand or transform JavaScript code.
const { parse } = require('acorn-node');
const AST = parse('const x = 1;');
Node.js Syntax Support
acorn-node extends Acorn to support Node.js-specific syntax, such as the `require` function. This makes it particularly useful for analyzing or transforming Node.js codebases.
const { parse } = require('acorn-node');
const AST = parse('require("path");', { ecmaVersion: 2020 });
Esprima is a high performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser that also offers syntax tree generation. Compared to acorn-node, Esprima supports a wide range of ECMAScript standards but does not have specific optimizations or extensions for Node.js environments.
Acorn preloaded with plugins for syntax parity with recent Node versions.
It also includes versions of the plugins compiled with Bublé, so they can be run on old Node versions (0.6 and up).
npm install acorn-node
var acorn = require('acorn-node')
The API is the same as acorn, but the following syntax features are enabled by default:
10n
10_000
import()
import.meta
propertyexport * as ns from
syntaxAnd the following options have different defaults from acorn, to match Node modules:
ecmaVersion: 2019
allowHashBang: true
allowReturnOutsideFunction: true
var walk = require('acorn-node/walk')
The Acorn syntax tree walker. Comes preconfigured for the syntax plugins if necessary. See the acorn documentation for details.
The files in the repo root and the ./test folder are licensed as Apache-2.0.
The files in lib/ are generated from other packages:
FAQs
the acorn javascript parser, preloaded with plugins for syntax parity with recent node versions
The npm package acorn-node receives a total of 2,414,289 weekly downloads. As such, acorn-node popularity was classified as popular.
We found that acorn-node demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 40 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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