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ast-module-types
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Collection of useful helper functions when trying to determine module type (CommonJS or AMD) properties of an AST node.
Collection of useful helper functions when trying to determine module type (CommonJS or AMD) properties of an AST node.
AST checks are based on the Esprima (Spidermonkey) format
npm install ast-module-types
Each of these takes in a single AST node argument and returns a boolean.
isDefineAMD: if node matches any form of an AMD define function callisRequire: if node matches a require function all (declaring a dependency)isTopLevelRequire: if node matches a require at the very top of the file.isAMDDriverScriptRequire: if node matches an AMD driver script's require call require([deps], function)isExports: if the node matches CommonJS module.exports or exports (defining a module)Detecting the various forms of defining an AMD module
isNamedForm: if the node is a define call of the form: define('name', [deps], func)isDependencyForm: if the node is a define call of the form: define([deps], func)isFactoryForm: if the node is a define call of the form: define(func(require))isNoDependencyForm: if the node is a define call of the form: define({})isREMForm: if the node matches the form: define(function(require, exports, module){});ES6 Types
All types abide by the EStree spec
isES6Import: if the node is any of the es6 import formsisES6Export: if the node is of any es6 export formsconst types = require('ast-module-types');
// Assume node is some node of an AST that you parsed using esprima or esprima-fb
// ...
console.log(types.isDefineAMD(node));
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Collection of useful helper functions when trying to determine module type (CommonJS or AMD) properties of an AST node.
The npm package ast-module-types receives a total of 1,435,067 weekly downloads. As such, ast-module-types popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ast-module-types demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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