Escalima is a Scala wrapper for esprima to parse JavaScript into an ast. It works within the JVM as well as with ScalaJS. The ast returned by esprima can either be received as a json string or as a neatly wrapped structure of scala classes.

The scaladoc for escalima can be found here.

val parser = new ECMAScript
val source = "test(id)"
val program = parser.parseModule(source)

program match {
    case ast.Program(Seq(stmt)) =>
        stmt match {
            case ast.ExpressionStatement(ast.CallExpression(_, Seq(arg))) =>
                println(arg.toJSON)
        }
}

All classes of the ast have neatly defined apply and unapply methods. The output of above program is:

{
    "type": "Identifier",
    "name": "id",
    "loc": {
        "source": null,
        "start": {
            "line": 1,
            "column": 5
        },
        "end": {
            "line": 1,
            "column": 7
        }
    }
}

Instead of an ast Escalima can also just return a json string which is equivalent to the json returned by esprima. println(parser.parseModuleToJson(source)) would print:

{
    "body": [
        {
            "type": "ExpressionStatement",
            "expression": {
                "type": "CallExpression",
                "callee": {
                    "type": "Identifier",
                    "name": "test",
                    "loc": {
                        ...
                    }
                },
                "arguments": [
                    {
                        "type": "Identifier",
                        "name": "id",
                        "loc": {
                            ...
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "loc": {
                    ...
                }
            },
            "loc": {
                ...
            }
        }
    ],
    "loc": {
        ...
    }
}

Just add the following to your SBT config:

libraryDependencies += "de.srtobi" %% "escalima" % "0.3"

Because it uses the javax.script.ScriptManager you have to add the following setting for all JVM projects if you want to use it with sbt test

fork in Test := true

If you have a pure ScalaJS project or a cross project add the following to your SBT config:

libraryDependencies += "de.srtobi" %%% "escalima" % "0.3"

If you are using escalima in a JavaScript environment, escalima needs access to the esprima api. Depending on your environment there are two ways to import it.

In this settings esprima can be compiled into the dependencies by using the sbt bundler plugin.

Add the following to project/plugin.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.scala" % "sbt-scalajs-bundler" % "0.10.0")

And then activate the plugin on your project

(proj)
    .enablePlugins(ScalaJSPlugin)
    .enablePlugins(ScalaJSBundlerPlugin)

In a browser environment just import esprima directly in html

<script src="https://unpkg.com/esprima@~4.0/dist/esprima.js"></script>

This will add esprima as a global object where it can be found by escalima.

For ScalaJS Escalima simply loads Esprima as a module (that's why it has to be used with some kind of bundler) and wraps the calls.

For the JVM it creates a new instance of javax.script.ScriptManager and loads Esprima. Then it calls the appropriate functions (See JVMESPrimaBridge.scala). The initialization of the ScriptManager and Esprima might take a second. It is therefor recommended to only create one instance of ECMAScript per thread.