Is there a framework for defining parsers in JavaScript?

Question

Is there a JavaScript framework that allows to define a parsing grammar using JavaScript syntax, similar to the way Irony does it for C#?

Answer 1

I don't know much about how Irony works, but Chris Double has a library that lets you define grammars in JavaScript here: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/10/javascript-parser-combinators.html. It looks like you need to use git to download the code. If you don't have access to git, I could create an archive you can download somewhere else.

It's a "parser combinator" library which means you combine parsers for each production in your grammar into a larger parser that parses the whole thing. Each "sub-grammar" is a just a function that you create by calling the library functions.

Answer 2

This is not exactly what you need but this article goes through making a recursive descent parser in javascript for javascript itself.