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**Esprima** ([esprima.org](http://esprima.org), BSD license) is a high performance, | |
standard-compliant [ECMAScript](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm) | |
parser written in ECMAScript (also popularly known as | |
[JavaScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript)). | |
Esprima is created and maintained by [Ariya Hidayat](https://twitter.com/ariyahidayat), | |
with the help of [many contributors](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/contributors). | |
### Features | |
- Full support for ECMAScript 2017 ([ECMA-262 8th 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) (~1500 [unit tests](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/tree/master/test/fixtures) with [full code coverage](https://codecov.io/github/jquery/esprima)) | |
### API | |
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. | |
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.parseScript(program); | |
{ type: 'Program', | |
body: | |
[ { type: 'VariableDeclaration', | |
declarations: [Object], | |
kind: 'const' } ], | |
sourceType: 'script' } | |
``` | |
For more information, please read the [complete documentation](http://esprima.org/doc). |