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6 **Esprima** ([esprima.org](http://esprima.org), BSD license) is a high performance,
7 standard-compliant [ECMAScript](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm)
8 parser written in ECMAScript (also popularly known as
9 [JavaScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript)).
10 Esprima is created and maintained by [Ariya Hidayat](https://twitter.com/ariyahidayat),
11 with the help of [many contributors](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/contributors).
15 - Full support for ECMAScript 2017 ([ECMA-262 8th Edition](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm))
16 - Sensible [syntax tree format](https://github.com/estree/estree/blob/master/es5.md) as standardized by [ESTree project](https://github.com/estree/estree)
17 - Experimental support for [JSX](https://facebook.github.io/jsx/), a syntax extension for [React](https://facebook.github.io/react/)
18 - Optional tracking of syntax node location (index-based and line-column)
19 - [Heavily tested](http://esprima.org/test/ci.html) (~1500 [unit tests](https://github.com/jquery/esprima/tree/master/test/fixtures) with [full code coverage](https://codecov.io/github/jquery/esprima))
23 Esprima can be used to perform [lexical analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis) (tokenization) or [syntactic analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing) (parsing) of a JavaScript program.
25 A simple example on Node.js REPL:
28 > var esprima = require('esprima');
29 > var program = 'const answer = 42';
31 > esprima.tokenize(program);
32 [ { type: 'Keyword', value: 'const' },
33 { type: 'Identifier', value: 'answer' },
34 { type: 'Punctuator', value: '=' },
35 { type: 'Numeric', value: '42' } ]
37 > esprima.parseScript(program);
40 [ { type: 'VariableDeclaration',
41 declarations: [Object],
43 sourceType: 'script' }
46 For more information, please read the [complete documentation](http://esprima.org/doc).