syntax-error
Detect and report syntax errors in source code strings.
When you type node src.js
you get a friendly error report about exactly where
the syntax error is. This module lets you check for syntax errors and report
them in a similarly friendly format that wrapping a try/catch around
Function()
or vm.runInNewContext()
doesn't get you.
example
var fs = ;var check = ;var file = __dirname + '/src.js';var src = fs;var err = ;if errconsole;console;console;
$ node check.js
ERROR DETECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/home/substack/projects/node-syntax-error/example/src.js:5
if (Array.isArray(x) res.push.apply(res, x);
^
ParseError: Unexpected identifier
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methods
var check =
var err = check(src, file, opts={})
Check the source code string src
for syntax errors.
Optionally you can specify a filename file
that will show up in the output.
If src
has a syntax error, return an error object err
that can be printed or
stringified.
If there are no syntax errors in src
, return undefined
.
Options will be passed through to acorn-node. acorn-node defaults to options that match the most recent Node versions.
err.toString()
Return the long string description with a source snippet and a ^
under
pointing exactly where the error was detected.
attributes
err.message
short string description of the error type
err.line
line number of the error in the original source (indexing starts at 1)
err.column
column number of the error in the original source (indexing starts at 1)
install
With npm do:
npm install syntax-error
license
MIT