This PR changes the underlying buffer backed AST format we use for
JavaScript-based linting plugins. It adds support for various new types,
makes traversal code a lot easier and is more polished compared to
previous iterations.
Here is a quick summary (in no particular order):
- Node prop data is separate from traversal, which makes traversal code
so much easier to reason about. Previously, it was interleaved with node
prop data
- spans are in a separate table as well, as they are rarely needed.
- schema is separate from SWC conversion logic, which makes
- supports recursive plain objects
- supports numbers
- supports bigint
- supports regex
- adds all SWC nodes
Apologies, this is kinda a big PR, but it's worth it imo.
_Marking as draft because I need to update some tests tomorrow._
When running selectors for JS linting plugins we would error when
encountering an unknown attribute name:
```js
// selector
Foo[non-existant]
// error
Error: Missing string id: <number>
```
This was caused by using `0` as the invalid marker, but also overloading
`0` with an actual node type. So the fix is to reserve `0` as the
invalid marker and move the property type to the next index.
This PR extracts the core part of
https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/27203 to make it easier to review
and land in parts.
It contains:
- The JS plugin code the deserializes and walks the buffer
- The Rust portion to serialize SWC to the buffer format (a bunch of
nodes are still todos, but imo these can land anytime later)
- Basic lint plugin types, without the AST node types to make this PR
easier to review
- Added more code comments to explain the format etc.
More fixes and changes will be done in follow-up PRs.
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Co-authored-by: Bartek Iwańczuk <biwanczuk@gmail.com>
