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A fast and small library for detecting the programming language of a code snippet. Can be used for strings of code spanning multiple thousand lines.
This library should only be used if you don't have anything else to go by to determine the language of the code, like a file extension.
npm install lang-detector --save
/**
* function detectLang(snippet, options) { ... }
*
* @snippet {String} The code snippet.
* @options {Object} (Optional) {
* heuristic: {Boolean} Enable heuristic optimisation for better performance. `true` by default.
* statistics: {Boolean} Return statistics. `false` by default.
* }
* @return {String} (Name of the detected language) or {Object} (Statistics).
*/
var detectLang = require('lang-detector');
detectLang('List<String> things = new ArrayList<>();')
// => 'Java'
detectLang('console.log("Hello world");')
// => 'JavaScript'
detectLang('Hello world.', { statistics: true })
/* => {
"detected": "Unknown",
"statistics": {
"JavaScript": 0,
"C": 0,
"C++": 0,
"Python": 0,
...
"Unknown": 1
}
}
*/
Run npm test
in the root of the directory to run the tests.
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A library for detecting the programming language of a code snippet.
The npm package lang-detector receives a total of 995 weekly downloads. As such, lang-detector popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that lang-detector 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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