When authoring tooling that parses Handlebars files and emits Handlebars
files, you often want to preserve the **exact** formatting of the input.
The changes in this commit add a new method to the `Handlebars`
namespace: `parseWithoutProcessing`. Unlike, `Handlebars.parse` (which
will mutate the parsed AST to apply whitespace control) this method will
parse the template and return it directly (**without** processing
😉).
For example, parsing the following template:
```hbs
{{#foo}}
{{~bar~}} {{baz~}}
{{/foo}}
```
Using `Handlebars.parse`, the AST returned would have truncated the
following whitespace:
* The whitespace prior to the `{{#foo}}`
* The newline following `{{#foo}}`
* The leading whitespace before `{{~bar~}}`
* The whitespace between `{{~bar~}}` and `{{baz~}}`
* The newline after `{{baz~}}`
* The whitespace prior to the `{{/foo}}`
When `Handlebars.parse` is used from `Handlebars.precompile` or
`Handlebars.compile`, this whitespace stripping is **very** important
(these behaviors are intentional, and generally lead to better rendered
output).
When the same template is parsed with
`Handlebars.parseWithoutProcessing` none of those modifications to the
AST are made. This enables "codemod tooling" (e.g. `prettier` and
`ember-template-recast`) to preserve the **exact** initial formatting.
Prior to these changes, those tools would have to _manually_ reconstruct
the whitespace that is lost prior to emitting source.
Converts the tool chain to use babel, eslint, and webpack vs. the previous proprietary solutions.
Additionally begins enforcing additional linting concerns as well as updates the code to reflect these rules.
Fixes#855Fixes#993
Rather than keeping state in the AST, which requires some gymnastics, we create a separate visitor flow which does the top down iteration necessary to calculate all of the state needed for proper whitespace control evaluation.
Removes unnecessary commonjs code generated for the parser. This reduces
the size of the parse by about 700bytes and should resolve lookup issues
with browserify and other static analysis tools. See #220
Nils Knappmeier
Robert Jackson
kpdecker
Or Neeman
Martin Muñoz
Yehuda Katz
Tommy Messbauer
machty
Spike Brehm