literal-parser

A small library to parse JavaScript array/object literal

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

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🔎 literal-parser

A small library to parse and serialize JavaScript array/object literal.

This is like a JSON.parse / JSON.serialize but for JavaScript object instead of JSON objects.

Gist

import Parser from "literal-parser";

Parser.parse('{ some: ["object", { literal: true }] }');
// return an object { some: ["object", { literal: true }] }

Supported features

Take a look at the tests see what is supported.

API

Parser.parse(str)

Parse the string, expect the string to contain only one expression and throw otherwise.

Return the parsed object.

Parser.parseOne(str)

Parse one expression then stop.

Returns a object with { value, length } where value is the parsed expression and length is the number of character parsed.

Parser.parseOne('{ props: true }} something="else" />');
// { value: { props: true }, length: 15 }

Serializer.serialize(obj)

Print an object.