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README.md
Acorn
A tiny, fast JavaScript parser written in JavaScript.
Community
Acorn is open source software released under an MIT license.
You are welcome to report bugs or create pull requests on github. For questions and discussion, please use the Tern discussion forum.
Installation
The easiest way to install acorn is from npm:
npm install acorn
Alternately, you can download the source and build acorn yourself:
git clone https://github.com/acornjs/acorn.git
cd acorn
npm install
Interface
parse(input, options) is the main interface to the library. The
input parameter is a string, options must be an object setting
some of the options listed below. The return value will be an abstract
syntax tree object as specified by the ESTree
spec.
let acorn = require("acorn");
console.log(acorn.parse("1 + 1", {ecmaVersion: 2020}));
When encountering a syntax error, the parser will raise a
SyntaxError object with a meaningful message. The error object will
have a pos property that indicates the string offset at which the
error occurred, and a loc object that contains a {line, column}
object referring to that same position.
Options are provided by in a second argument, which should be an
object containing any of these fields (only ecmaVersion is
required):
-
ecmaVersion: Indicates the ECMAScript version to parse. Must be either 3, 5, 6 (or 2015), 7 (2016), 8 (2017), 9 (2018), 10 (2019), 11 (2020), 12 (2021), 13 (2022), 14 (2023), or
"latest"(the latest the library supports). This influences support for strict mode, the set of reserved words, and support for new syntax features.NOTE: Only 'stage 4' (finalized) ECMAScript features are being implemented by Acorn. Other proposed new features must be implemented through plugins.
-
sourceType: Indicate the mode the code should be parsed in. Can be either
"script"or"module". This influences global strict mode and parsing ofimportandexportdeclarations.NOTE: If set to
"module", then staticimport/exportsyntax will be valid, even ifecmaVersionis less than 6. -
onInsertedSemicolon: If given a callback, that callback will be called whenever a missing semicolon is inserted by the parser. The callback will be given the character offset of the point where the semicolon is inserted as argument, and if
locationsis on, also a{line, column}object representing this position. -
onTrailingComma: Like
onInsertedSemicolon, but for trailing commas. -
allowReserved: If
false, using a reserved word will generate an error. Defaults totrueforecmaVersion3,falsefor higher versions. When given the value"never", reserved words and keywords can also not be used as property names (as in Internet Explorer's old parser). -
allowReturnOutsideFunction: By default, a return statement at the top level raises an error. Set this to
trueto accept such code. -
allowImportExportEverywhere: By default,
importandexportdeclarations can only appear at a program's top level. Setting this option totrueallows them anywhere where a statement is allowed, and also allowsimport.metaexpressions to appear in scripts (whensourceTypeis not"module"). -
allowAwaitOutsideFunction: If
false,awaitexpressions can only appear insideasyncfunctions. Defaults totrueforecmaVersion2022 and later,falsefor lower versions. Setting this option totrueallows to have top-levelawaitexpressions. They are still not allowed in non-asyncfunctions, though. -
allowSuperOutsideMethod: By default,
superoutside a method raises an error. Set this totrueto accept such code. -
allowHashBang: When this is enabled, if the code starts with the characters
#!(as in a shellscript), the first line will be treated as a comment. Defaults to true whenecmaVersion>= 2023. -
locations: When
true, each node has alocobject attached withstartandendsubobjects, each of which contains the one-based line and zero-based column numbers in{line, column}form. Default isfalse. -
onToken: If a function is passed for this option, each found token will be passed in same format as tokens returned from
tokenizer().getToken().If array is passed, each found token is pushed to it.
Note that you are not allowed to call the parser from the callback—that will corrupt its internal state.
-
onComment: If a function is passed for this option, whenever a comment is encountered the function will be called with the following parameters:
block:trueif the comment is a block comment, false if it is a line comment.text: The content of the comment.start: Character offset of the start of the comment.end: Character offset of the end of the comment.
When the
locationsoptions is on, the{line, column}locations of the comment’s start and end are passed as two additional parameters.If array is passed for this option, each found comment is pushed to it as object in Esprima format:
{ "type": "Line" | "Block", "value": "comment text", "start": Number, "end": Number, // If `locations` option is on: "loc": { "start": {line: Number, column: Number} "end": {line: Number, column: Number} }, // If `ranges` option is on: "range": [Number, Number] }Note that you are not allowed to call the parser from the callback—that will corrupt its internal state.
-
ranges: Nodes have their start and end characters offsets recorded in
startandendproperties (directly on the node, rather than thelocobject, which holds line/column data. To also add a semi-standardizedrangeproperty holding a[start, end]array with the same numbers, set therangesoption totrue. -
program: It is possible to parse multiple files into a single AST by passing the tree produced by parsing the first file as the
programoption in subsequent parses. This will add the toplevel forms of the parsed file to the "Program" (top) node of an existing parse tree. -
sourceFile: When the
locationsoption istrue, you can pass this option to add asourceattribute in every node’slocobject. Note that the contents of this option are not examined or processed in any way; you are free to use whatever format you choose. -
directSourceFile: Like
sourceFile, but asourceFileproperty will be added (regardless of thelocationoption) directly to the nodes, rather than thelocobject. -
preserveParens: If this option is
true, parenthesized expressions are represented by (non-standard)ParenthesizedExpressionnodes that have a singleexpressionproperty containing the expression inside parentheses.
parseExpressionAt(input, offset, options) will parse a single
expression in a string, and return its AST. It will not complain if
there is more of the string left after the expression.
tokenizer(input, options) returns an object with a getToken
method that can be called repeatedly to get the next token, a {start, end, type, value} object (with added loc property when the
locations option is enabled and range property when the ranges
option is enabled). When the token's type is tokTypes.eof, you
should stop calling the method, since it will keep returning that same
token forever.
In ES6 environment, returned result can be used as any other protocol-compliant iterable:
for (let token of acorn.tokenizer(str)) {
// iterate over the tokens
}
// transform code to array of tokens:
var tokens = [...acorn.tokenizer(str)];
tokTypes holds an object mapping names to the token type objects
that end up in the type properties of tokens.
getLineInfo(input, offset) can be used to get a {line, column} object for a given program string and offset.
The Parser class
Instances of the Parser class contain all the state and logic
that drives a parse. It has static methods parse,
parseExpressionAt, and tokenizer that match the top-level
functions by the same name.
When extending the parser with plugins, you need to call these methods
on the extended version of the class. To extend a parser with plugins,
you can use its static extend method.
var acorn = require("acorn");
var jsx = require("acorn-jsx");
var JSXParser = acorn.Parser.extend(jsx());
JSXParser.parse("foo(<bar/>)", {ecmaVersion: 2020});
The extend method takes any number of plugin values, and returns a
new Parser class that includes the extra parser logic provided by
the plugins.
Command line interface
The bin/acorn utility can be used to parse a file from the command
line. It accepts as arguments its input file and the following
options:
-
--ecma3|--ecma5|--ecma6|--ecma7|--ecma8|--ecma9|--ecma10: Sets the ECMAScript version to parse. Default is version 9. -
--module: Sets the parsing mode to"module". Is set to"script"otherwise. -
--locations: Attaches a "loc" object to each node with "start" and "end" subobjects, each of which contains the one-based line and zero-based column numbers in{line, column}form. -
--allow-hash-bang: If the code starts with the characters #! (as in a shellscript), the first line will be treated as a comment. -
--allow-await-outside-function: Allows top-levelawaitexpressions. See theallowAwaitOutsideFunctionoption for more information. -
--compact: No whitespace is used in the AST output. -
--silent: Do not output the AST, just return the exit status. -
--help: Print the usage information and quit.
The utility spits out the syntax tree as JSON data.