episcope

ECMAScript scope analyzer. Library provides set of functions that perform analyzes on the nodes of the AST in the de facto syntax tree format. All the API function take AST nodes denoting a lexical scope and performed static analyzes at the given scope level.

API

references

Returns array of Identifier nodes for all the free references with in the given scope that are not part of declarations or members access identifiers.

var esprima = require("esprima")
var references = require("episcope/references")
var ast = esprima.parse("console.log('>>>', error)")
references(ast)
// =>  [{ type: "Identifier", name: "console" }, { type: "Identifier", name: "error" }]

bindings

Returns array of Identifier nodes for all the declared bindings available to the given scope, including named arguments if given scope is a function form.

var esprima = require("esprima")
var bindings = require("episcope/bindings")
var ast = esprima.parse("function foo(a, b) { var c = a + b; return c * c }")
ast.body[0].id
// => { type: 'Identifier', name: 'foo' }
bindings(ast.body[0])
// =>  [ { type: 'Identifier', name: 'a' },
//       { type: 'Identifier', name: 'b' },
//       { type: 'Identifier', name: 'c' } ]

scopes

Returns array of nested scope forms for the given one. Note the nested scopes of those nested scopes are not included, but this function can be used to do the walk through them too.

var esprima = require("esprima")
var scopes = require("episcope/scopes")
var ast = esprima.parse(String(function root() {
  function nested() { /***/ }
  try { /***/ } catch(error) { /***/ }
}))
ast.body[0].id
// => { type: 'Identifier', name: 'foo' }

scopes(ast.body[0])
// => [
//  { 
//    type: 'FunctionDeclaration',
//    id: { type: 'Identifier', name: 'nested' },
//    // ...
//  },
//  {
//    type: 'CatchClause',
//    param: { type: 'Identifier', name: 'error' },
//    body: { type: 'BlockStatement', body: [] }
//  }
//]

properties

Returns array of Identifier nodes for all the property references within the given scope. Mainly used internally to filter out references to free variables.

var esprima = require("esprima")
var properties = require("episcope/properties")
var ast = esprima.parse("document.body.appendChild(node)")

properties(ast)
// => [ { type: 'Identifier', name: 'appendChild' },
//      { type: 'Identifier', name: 'body' } ]

Install

npm install episcope