* Add `nodes` option to Node API, that returns POJO representation of AST; starting point for toPlainObject method on node classes to return the serializable plain JavaScript object representation of each node
* Make --nodes also return JSON (pretty-printed, though not colorized)
* Alphabetize CLI flags
* Use new `ast` flag to request AST, restoring prior `nodes` flag; rename toPlainObject to toJSON
* Upgrade Babeli (now babel-minify) which fixes the bug that was forcing us to run Babel twice for transpilation
* Add --transpile option (WIP)
* Node API always compiles a string, so it doesn’t need the option to pass a path to an options file, it can always just pass an object to `transpile`; get `transpile` working with `eval`
* Not allowing argument to `--transpile` so don’t need to cover so many cases
* Don’t need to worry about `sourceMaps` option to pass to Babel, `inputSourceMap` overrides it
* Rewrite Webpack test to use Node API
* Make the compiler safe again for browsers and Webpack/Browserify
* Node version of CoffeeScript.compile passes reference to Babel if transpile is requested
* Test Node API for transpile option
* Test for merged source maps
* Test for Node API error message
* Only stop searching for Babel options if a package.json has a truthy "babel" key
* Update docs
* Fix#2870: If --output ends with a filename, and the input is a file and not a path, save as the desired filename
* If an output path ends in a slash, force saving into an output folder even if that folder name would contain a period (e.g. /scripts.js/); if output filename is only periods, treat it as a path
* Restrict exceptions
* Add #! support for executable scripts on Linux.
Pass arguments to executable script unchanged if using "#!/usr/bin/env
coffee". (Previously, "./test.coffee -abck" would be turned into "-a -b -c -k",
for example.)
Fixes#1752.
* refactor option parsing
clean up parsing code and in the process fix oustanding bug where coffeescript
modified arguments meant for an executable script
* address comments
* intermediate save
* add note saying where OptionParser is used in coffee command
* add some more work
* fix flatten functions
* refactor tests
* make argument processing less confusing
* add basic test
* remove unused file
* compilation now hangs
* remove unnecessary changes
* add tests!!!
* add/fix some tests
* clarify a test
* fix helpers
* fix opt parsing
* fix infinite loop
* make rule building easier to read
* add tests for flag overlap
* revamp argument parsing again and add more thorough testing
* add tests, comment, clean unused method
* address review comments
* add test for direct invocation of shebang scripts
* move shebang parsing test to separate file and check for browser
* remove TODO
* example backwards compatible warnings
* add correct tests for warning 1
* add tests for warnings
* commit output js libs and update docs
* respond to review comments
also add tests for help text
* respond to review comments
* fix example output
* Rewrite argument parsing documentation to be more concise; add it to sidebar and body; add new output
* Don’t mention deprecated syntax; clean up variable names
Geoffrey Booth