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acorn-private-methods
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This is a plugin for Acorn - a tiny, fast JavaScript parser, written completely in JavaScript.
It implements support for private methods, getters and setters as defined in the stage 3 proposal Private methods and getter/setters for JavaScript classes. The emitted AST follows the ESTree experimental Class Features design.
This module provides a plugin that can be used to extend the Acorn Parser class:
const {Parser} = require('acorn');
const privateMethods = require('acorn-private-methods');
Parser.extend(privateMethods).parse('class X { #a() {} }');
or as an ECMAScript Module:
import {Parser} from 'acorn';
import privateMethods from 'acorn-private-methods';
Parser.extend(privateMethods).parse('class X { #a() {} }');
This plugin is released under an MIT License.
FAQs
Support for private methods in acorn
The npm package acorn-private-methods receives a total of 204,585 weekly downloads. As such, acorn-private-methods popularity was classified as popular.
We found that acorn-private-methods demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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