- Online Playground
- Getting Started Tutorial
- YouTube Video: Introduction to Lexers, Parsers and Interpreters with Chevrotain
- Performance benchmark
Chevrotain is a blazing fast and feature rich Parser Building Toolkit for JavaScript with built-in support for LL(K). Grammars and 3rd party plugin for LL(*) grammars. It can be used to build parsers/compilers/interpreters for various use cases ranging from simple configuration files, to full-fledged programing languages.
Grammars are written as pure JavaScript sources without a code generation phase,
A more in depth review of Chevrotain can be found in this great article on: Parsing in JavaScript: Tools and Libraries.
- npm:
npm install chevrotain - Browser ESM bundled versions:
These can be downloaded directly via UNPKG or other NPM cdn services, e.g.:
- Latest:
https://unpkg.com/chevrotain/lib/chevrotain.mjshttps://unpkg.com/chevrotain/lib/chevrotain.min.mjs
- Explicit version number:
https://unpkg.com/chevrotain@11.0.3/lib/chevrotain.mjshttps://unpkg.com/chevrotain@11.0.3/lib/chevrotain.min.mjs
- Latest:
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FAQ.
Chevrotain will run on any modern JavaScript ES2015 runtime. That includes nodejs maintenance/active/current version, modern major browsers, but not legacy ES5.1 runtimes such as IE11.
Contributions are greatly appreciated. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
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