The tiny, regex powered, lenient, almost spec-compliant JavaScript tokenizer that never fails.
import jsTokens from "js-tokens";
const jsString = 'JSON.stringify({k:3.14**2}, null /*replacer*/, "\\t")';
Array.from(jsTokens(jsString), (token) => token.value).join("|");
// JSON|.|stringify|(|{|k|:|3.14|**|2|}|,| |null| |/*replacer*/|,| |"\t"|)
Acorn is a full JavaScript parser that can parse source code into an abstract syntax tree (AST). While js-tokens only tokenizes the code, Acorn can parse it and provide more detailed information about the structure of the code.
Esprima is another JavaScript parser that can convert code into an AST. It offers similar functionality to Acorn but has different API and extension points. Compared to js-tokens, Esprima provides a more comprehensive analysis of the code.
Babylon is the parser used by Babel, and it's capable of handling modern JavaScript features. It's more feature-rich than js-tokens, offering AST generation and the ability to handle experimental syntax through plugins.
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Tiny JavaScript tokenizer.
The npm package js-tokens receives a total of 42,612,454 weekly downloads. As such, js-tokens popularity was classified as popular.
We found that js-tokens demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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