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LISP, Haskell, Scala, Scheme, Boo respect this term for a string literal of code being interpretted into AST. Babel should clearly identify that it too has quasi-quotes capabilities.
babel-template
Generate an AST from a string template.
In computer science, this is known as an implementation of quasiquotes.
Install
$ npm install babel-template
Usage
import template from 'babel-template';
import generate from 'babel-generator';
import * as t from 'babel-types';
const buildRequire = template(`
var IMPORT_NAME = require(SOURCE);
`);
const ast = buildRequire({
IMPORT_NAME: t.identifier('myModule'),
SOURCE: t.stringLiteral('my-module')
});
console.log(generate(ast).code);
var myModule = require('my-module');