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babel-template
Generate an AST from a string template.
In computer science, this is known as an implementation of quasiquotes.
Install
$ npm install babel-template
Usage
import template from 'babel-template';
import generate from 'babel-generator';
import * as t from 'babel-types';
const buildRequire = template(`
var IMPORT_NAME = require(SOURCE);
`);
const ast = buildRequire({
IMPORT_NAME: t.identifier('myModule'),
SOURCE: t.stringLiteral('my-module')
});
console.log(generate(ast).code);
var myModule = require('my-module');
API
template(code, [opts])
code
Type: string
options
babel-template
accepts all of the options from babylon, and specifies
some defaults of its own:
allowReturnOutsideFunction
is set totrue
by default.allowSuperOutsideMethod
is set totrue
by default.
preserveComments
Type: boolean
Default: false
Set this to true
to preserve any comments from the code
parameter.
Return value
babel-template
returns a function
which is invoked with an optional object
of replacements. See the usage section for an example.