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author | Florian Dold <florian.dold@gmail.com> | 2017-05-27 17:36:13 +0200 |
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committer | Florian Dold <florian.dold@gmail.com> | 2017-05-27 17:36:13 +0200 |
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diff --git a/node_modules/esprima/README.md b/node_modules/esprima/README.md index 749454f44..e59d08333 100644 --- a/node_modules/esprima/README.md +++ b/node_modules/esprima/README.md @@ -12,16 +12,33 @@ with the help of [many contributors](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/contribut ### Features -- Full support for ECMAScript 6 ([ECMA-262](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm)) -- Sensible [syntax tree format](https://github.com/estree/estree/blob/master/spec.md) as standardized by [ESTree project](https://github.com/estree/estree) +- Full support for ECMAScript 2016 ([ECMA-262 7th Edition](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm)) +- Sensible [syntax tree format](https://github.com/estree/estree/blob/master/es5.md) as standardized by [ESTree project](https://github.com/estree/estree) +- Experimental support for [JSX](https://facebook.github.io/jsx/), a syntax extension for [React](https://facebook.github.io/react/) - Optional tracking of syntax node location (index-based and line-column) -- [Heavily tested](http://esprima.org/test/ci.html) (~1250 [unit tests](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/tree/master/test/fixtures) with [full code coverage](https://codecov.io/github/jquery/esprima)) +- [Heavily tested](http://esprima.org/test/ci.html) (~1300 [unit tests](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/tree/master/test/fixtures) with [full code coverage](https://codecov.io/github/jquery/esprima)) -Esprima serves as a **building block** for some JavaScript -language tools, from [code instrumentation](http://esprima.org/demo/functiontrace.html) -to [editor autocompletion](http://esprima.org/demo/autocomplete.html). +### API -Esprima runs on many popular web browsers, as well as other ECMAScript platforms such as -[Rhino](http://www.mozilla.org/rhino), [Nashorn](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/), and [Node.js](https://npmjs.org/package/esprima). +Esprima can be used to perform [lexical analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis) (tokenization) or [syntactic analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing) (parsing) of a JavaScript program. -For more information, check the web site [esprima.org](http://esprima.org). +A simple example on Node.js REPL: + +```javascript +> var esprima = require('esprima'); +> var program = 'const answer = 42'; + +> esprima.tokenize(program); +[ { type: 'Keyword', value: 'const' }, + { type: 'Identifier', value: 'answer' }, + { type: 'Punctuator', value: '=' }, + { type: 'Numeric', value: '42' } ] + +> esprima.parse(program); +{ type: 'Program', + body: + [ { type: 'VariableDeclaration', + declarations: [Object], + kind: 'const' } ], + sourceType: 'script' } +``` |