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January 7, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Convert ESTree-compatible JavaScript AST to Babel AST.

To use parsers like:

With babel tools like:

The thing is @babel/parser has a little differences with estree standard:

  • Property of ObjectExpression and ObjectPattern called ObjectProperty;
  • FunctionExpression of a Property located in ObjectMethod node;
  • File node;
  • StringLiteral, NumericLiteral, NullLiteral, RegExpLiteral, BooleanLiteral instead of Literal;
  • ClassMethod instead of MethodDefinition;
  • ClassPrivateMethod;
  • ClassPrivateName stores name as Identifier in id field;
  • ClassPrivateProperty instead of FieldDefinition;
  • OptionalMemberExpression and OptionalCallExpression instead of ChainExpression;
  • ImportDeclaration and ExportNamedDeclaration has attributes;
  • JSXText has extra field;
  • extra.parenthesized=true instead of ParenthesizedExpression;
  • etc...

Also @babel/parser has differences with typescript-estree:

  • ClassPrivateProperty instead of PropertyDefinition when key.type=PrivateName;
  • ClasseProperty instead of PropertyDefinition when key.type=Identifier;
  • PrivateName instead of PrivateIdentifier;
  • TSQualifiedName instead of MemberExpression in TSInterfaceHeritage;
  • TSDeclaredMethod with abstract=true instead of TSAbstractMethodDefinition;
  • extra.parenthesized=true instead of TSParenthesizedType;
  • etc...

estree-to-babel aims to smooth this differences.

Install

npm i estree-to-babel

Example

import {parse} from 'cherow';
import {estreeToBabel} from 'estree-to-babel';
import {traverse} from '@babel/traverse';

const ast = estreeToBabel(parse(`
    const f = ({a}) => a;
`));

traverse({
    ObjectProperty(path) {
        console.log(path.value.name);
        // output
        'a';
    },
});

You can provide options:

import * as cherow from 'cherow';
import {estreeToBabel} from 'estree-to-babel';
import traverse from '@babel/traverse';

const options = {
    convertParens: false,
};

const ast = estreeToBabel(cherow.parse(`
    (a = b)
`), options);

traverse({
    AssignmentExpression(path) {
        console.log(path.parentPath.type);
        // output
        'ParenthesizedExpression';
    },
});

License

MIT