You can see the AST as a DOM document, the source code of the program beeing the graphical text output, and the DOM beeing a representation of it.
The main node is the program node, and it's structured like this :
{
"kind": "program",
"children": [
// array of nodes
]
}Every node has a common structure enabling you to scan them and act accordingly.
NOTE : This structure depends also on what options you enable.
{
"kind": "node name",
"loc": {
""
},
// the location node
"loc": {
"source": "original source code of the node",
"start": {
"line": 1, // 1 based
"column": 0, // 0 based
"offset": 0 // offset from the source code
},
"end": {
// same structure as start
}
},
"leadingComments": [
// array of comments nodes
]
}- Location
- Position
- Node