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Esprima is a high performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser written in ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript). It is capable of parsing JavaScript code to produce an abstract syntax tree (AST), which can be used for various purposes such as static analysis, code instrumentation, and transformation.
Parsing JavaScript Code
This feature allows you to parse a string of JavaScript code and obtain an abstract syntax tree (AST) that represents the structure of the code.
const esprima = require('esprima');
const program = 'const answer = 42;';
const ast = esprima.parseScript(program);
Syntax Tree Analysis
Once you have the AST, you can analyze it to extract information about the code, such as variable names, function declarations, and more.
const esprima = require('esprima');
const program = 'const answer = 42;';
const ast = esprima.parseScript(program);
console.log(ast.body[0].declarations[0].id.name); // 'answer'
Tokenization
Esprima can also be used to tokenize JavaScript code, breaking it down into its lexical components (tokens) such as keywords, identifiers, literals, and operators.
const esprima = require('esprima');
const program = 'const answer = 42;';
const tokens = esprima.tokenize(program);
console.log(tokens);
Acorn is a tiny, fast JavaScript parser, also producing an AST. It is similar to Esprima in terms of functionality but focuses on being smaller and more modular.
Cherow is a very fast, standards-compliant, self-hosted JavaScript parser with error recovery. It compares to Esprima in terms of compliance and performance but also offers better error handling and recovery options.
Esprima (esprima.org) is an experimental ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript) parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis. It is also written in ECMAScript.
Esprima is still in the development, for now please check the wiki documentation. Since it is not comprehensive nor complete, refer to the issue tracker for known problems and future plans.
Feedback and contribution are welcomed! Please read the contribution guide for further info.
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ECMAScript parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis
The npm package esprima receives a total of 36,871,776 weekly downloads. As such, esprima popularity was classified as popular.
We found that esprima demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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