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js-tokens
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Tiny JavaScript tokenizer.
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Package description
The js-tokens npm package is a lightweight, regex-based lexer for JavaScript tokens. It can tokenize JavaScript code without the overhead of a full parser, making it useful for tasks like syntax highlighting or extracting specific tokens from code.
Tokenizing JavaScript code
This feature allows you to tokenize a string of JavaScript code into an array of token objects. Each token object describes a syntactic element of the code, such as a keyword, identifier, number, string, or operator.
const jsTokens = require('js-tokens');
const tokens = [...jsTokens('var x = 42;')];
console.log(tokens);
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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The tiny, regex powered, lenient, almost spec-compliant JavaScript tokenizer that never fails.
const jsTokens = require("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"|)
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Tiny JavaScript tokenizer.
The npm package js-tokens receives a total of 36,171,757 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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