Escodegen (escodegen) is an ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript) code generator from Mozilla's Parser API AST. See the online generator for a demo.

Escodegen can be used in a web browser:

<script src="escodegen.browser.js"></script>

escodegen.browser.js can be found in tagged revisions on GitHub.

Or in a Node.js application via npm:

npm install escodegen

A simple example: the program

escodegen.generate({
    type: 'BinaryExpression',
    operator: '+',
    left: { type: 'Literal', value: 40 },
    right: { type: 'Literal', value: 2 }
});

produces the string '40 + 2'.

See the API page for options. To run the tests, execute npm test in the root directory.

At first, execute npm install to install the all dev dependencies. After that,

npm run-script build

will generate escodegen.browser.js, which can be used in browser environments.

And,

npm run-script build-min

will generate the minified file escodegen.browser.min.js.

Copyright (C) 2012 Yusuke Suzuki (twitter: @Constellation) and other contributors.

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