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Geoffrey Booth 6d21dc5495 [CS2] Comments (#4572)
* Make `addLocationDataFn` more DRY

* Style fixes

* Provide access to full parser inside our custom function running in parser.js; rename the function to lay the groundwork for adding data aside from location data

* Fix style.

* Fix style.

* Label test comments

* Update grammar to remove comment tokens; update DSL to call new helper function that preserves comments through parsing

* New implementation of compiling block comments: the lexer pulls them out of the token stream, attaching them as a property to a token; the rewriter moves the attachment around so it lives on a token that is destined to make it through to compilation (and in a good placement); and the nodes render the block comment. All tests but one pass (commented out).

* If a comment follows a class declaration, move the comment inside the class body

* Style

* Improve indentation of multiline comments

* Fix indentation for block comments, at least in the cases covered by the one failing test

* Don’t reverse the order of unshifted comments

* Simplify rewriter’s handling of comments, generalizing the special case

* Expand the list of tokens we need to avoid for passing comments through the parser; get some literal tokens to have nodes created for them so that the comments pass through

* Improve comments; fix multiline flag

* Prepare HereComments for processing line comments

* Line comments, first draft: the tests pass, but the line comments aren’t indented and sometimes trail previous lines when they shouldn’t; updated compiler output in following commit

* Updated compiler, now with line comments

* `process` doesn’t exist in the browser, so we should check for its existence first

* Update parser output

* Test that proves #4290 is fixed

* Indent line comments, first pass

* Compiled output with indented line comments

* Comments that start a new line shouldn’t trail; don’t skip comments attached to generated tokens; stop looking for indentation once we hit a newline

* Revised output

* Cleanup

* Split “multiline” line comment tokens, shifting them forward or back as appropriate

* Fix comments in module specifiers

* Abstract attaching comments to a node

* Line comments in interpolated strings

* Line comments can’t be multiline anymore

* Improve handling of blank lines and indentation of following comments that start a new line (i.e. don’t trail)

* Make comments compilation more object-oriented

* Remove lots of dead code that we don’t need anymore because a comment is never a node, only a fragment

* Improve eqJS helper

* Fix #4290 definitively, with improved output for arrays with interspersed block comments

* Add support for line comments output interspersed within arrays

* Fix mistake, don’t lose the variable we’re working on

* Remove redundant replacements

* Check for indentation only from the start of the string

* Indentations in generated JS are always multiples of two spaces (never tabs) so just look for 2+ spaces

* Update package versions; run Babel twice, once for each preset, temporarily until a Babili bug is fixed that prevents it from running with the env preset

* Don’t rely on `fragment.type`, which can break when the compiler is minified

* Updated generated docs and browser compiler

* Output block comments after function arguments

* Comments appear above scope `var` declarations; better tracking of generated `JS` tokens created only to shepherd comments through to the output

* Create new FuncGlyph node, to hold comments we want to output near the function parameters

* Block comments between `)` and `->`/`=>` get output between `)` and `{`.

* Fix indentation of comments that are the first line inside a bare mode block

* Updated output

* Full Flow example

* Updated browser compiler

* Abstract and organize comment fragment generation code; store more properties on the comment fragment objects; make `throw` behave like `return`

* Abstract token insertion code

* Add missing locationData to STRING_START token, giving it the locationData of the overall StringWithInterpolations token so that comments attached to STRING_START end up on the StringWithInterpolations node

* Allow `SUPER` tokens to carry comments

* Rescue comments from `Existence` nodes and `If` nodes’ conditions

* Rescue comments after `\` line continuation tokens

* Updated compiled output

* Updated browser compiler

* Output block comments in the same `compileFragments` method as line comments, except for inline block comments

* Comments before splice

* Updated browser compiler

* Track compiledComments as a property of Base, to ensure that it’s not a global variable

* Docs: split up the Usage section

* Docs for type annotations via Flow; updated docs output

* Update regular comments documentation

* Updated browser compiler

* Comments before soak

* Comments before static methods, and probably before `@variable =` (this) assignments generally

* Comments before ‘if exists?’, refactor comment before ‘if this.var’ to be more precise, improve helper methods

* Comments before a method that contains ‘super()’ should output above the method property, not above the ‘super.method()’ call

* Fix missing comments before `if not` (i.e. before a UNARY token)

* Fix comments before ‘for’; add test for comment before assignment if (fixed in earlier commit)

* Comments within heregexes

* Updated browser compiler

* Update description to reflect what’s now happening in compileCommentFragments

* Preserve blank lines between line comments; output “whitespace-only” line comments as blank lines, rather than `//` following by whitespace

* Better future-proof comments tests

* Comments before object destructuring; abstract method for setting comments aside before compilation

* Handle more cases of comments before or after `for` loop declaration lines

* Fix indentation of comments preceding `for` loops

* Fix comment before splat function parameter

* Catch another RegexWithInterpolations comment edge case

* Updated browser compiler

* Change heregex example to one that’s more readable; update output

* Remove a few last references to the defunct HERECOMMENT token

* Abstract location hash creation into a function

* Improved clarity per code review notes

* Updated browser compiler
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Command Line

Once installed, you should have access to the coffee command, which can execute scripts, compile .coffee files into .js, and provide an interactive REPL. The coffee command takes the following options:

Option Description
-c, --compile Compile a .coffee script into a .js JavaScript file of the same name.
-m, --map Generate source maps alongside the compiled JavaScript files. Adds sourceMappingURL directives to the JavaScript as well.
-M, --inline-map Just like --map, but include the source map directly in the compiled JavaScript files, rather than in a separate file.
-i, --interactive Launch an interactive CoffeeScript session to try short snippets. Identical to calling coffee with no arguments.
-o, --output [DIR] Write out all compiled JavaScript files into the specified directory. Use in conjunction with --compile or --watch.
-w, --watch Watch files for changes, rerunning the specified command when any file is updated.
-p, --print Instead of writing out the JavaScript as a file, print it directly to stdout.
-s, --stdio Pipe in CoffeeScript to STDIN and get back JavaScript over STDOUT. Good for use with processes written in other languages. An example:
`cat src/cake.coffee
-l, --literate Parses the code as Literate CoffeeScript. You only need to specify this when passing in code directly over stdio, or using some sort of extension-less file name.
-e, --eval Compile and print a little snippet of CoffeeScript directly from the command line. For example:
coffee -e "console.log num for num in [10..1]"
-r, --require [MODULE] require() the given module before starting the REPL or evaluating the code given with the --eval flag.
-b, --bare Compile the JavaScript without the top-level function safety wrapper.
-t, --tokens Instead of parsing the CoffeeScript, just lex it, and print out the token stream. Used for debugging the compiler.
-n, --nodes Instead of compiling the CoffeeScript, just lex and parse it, and print out the parse tree. Used for debugging the compiler.
--nodejs The node executable has some useful options you can set, such as --debug, --debug-brk, --max-stack-size, and --expose-gc. Use this flag to forward options directly to Node.js. To pass multiple flags, use --nodejs multiple times.
--no-header Suppress the “Generated by CoffeeScript” header.

Examples:

  • Compile a directory tree of .coffee files in src into a parallel tree of .js files in lib:
    coffee --compile --output lib/ src/
  • Watch a file for changes, and recompile it every time the file is saved:
    coffee --watch --compile experimental.coffee
  • Concatenate a list of files into a single script:
    coffee --join project.js --compile src/*.coffee
  • Print out the compiled JS from a one-liner:
    coffee -bpe "alert i for i in [0..10]"
  • All together now, watch and recompile an entire project as you work on it:
    coffee -o lib/ -cw src/
  • Start the CoffeeScript REPL (Ctrl-D to exit, Ctrl-Vfor multi-line):
    coffee