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walk the ast
This module is a faster version of
falafel
that only does ast walking and .parent tracking, not source transforms.
var astw = require('astw');
var deparse = require('escodegen').generate;
var walk = astw('4 + beep(5 * 2)');
walk(function (node) {
var src = deparse(node);
console.log(node.type + ' :: ' + JSON.stringify(src));
});
var astw = require('astw')
Return a walk() function from the source string or ast object src.
Optionally:
opts.ecmaVersion - default: 8Walk the nodes in the ast with cb(node) where node is each element in the
ast from esprima but with an additional .parent
reference to the parent node.
With npm do:
npm install astw
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walk the ast with references to parent nodes
The npm package astw receives a total of 39,815 weekly downloads. As such, astw popularity was classified as popular.
We found that astw demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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