is it possible using rust to generate jsx AST?

Question

I'm not familiar with rust and trynna using swc to replace the babel

but I found @swc/core doesn't offer the api to generate code AST, so I want to write one using rust, is it possible to generate jsx ast?

Answer 1

Here is a good place to start: https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/main/crates/swc_ecma_parser/examples/typescript.rs but link can get invalid so I also pasted the code:

use swc_common::{
    self,
    errors::{ColorConfig, Handler},
    sync::Lrc,
    FileName, SourceMap,
};
use swc_ecma_parser::{lexer::Lexer, Capturing, Parser, StringInput, Syntax};

fn main() {
    let cm: Lrc<SourceMap> = Default::default();
    let handler = Handler::with_tty_emitter(ColorConfig::Auto, true, false, Some(cm.clone()));

    // Real usage
    // let fm = cm
    //     .load_file(Path::new("test.js"))
    //     .expect("failed to load test.js");

    let fm = cm.new_source_file(
        FileName::Custom("test.js".into()),
        "interface Foo {}".into(),
    );

    let lexer = Lexer::new(
        Syntax::Typescript(Default::default()),
        Default::default(),
        StringInput::from(&*fm),
        None,
    );

    let capturing = Capturing::new(lexer);

    let mut parser = Parser::new_from(capturing);

    for e in parser.take_errors() {
        e.into_diagnostic(&handler).emit();
    }

    let _module = parser
        .parse_typescript_module()
        .map_err(|e| e.into_diagnostic(&handler).emit())
        .expect("Failed to parse module.");

    println!("Tokens: {:?}", parser.input().take());
}

I never really worked or cared about this. All it took was 5min of browsing the repository, all the resources are there but if you are new to rust, I recommend the rust book first.