ali.regenerator
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Source transformer enabling ECMAScript 6 generator functions (yield) in JavaScript-of-today (ES5)
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regenerator [](https://travis-ci.org/facebook/regenerator)
===
This package implements a fully-functional source transformation that
takes the proposed syntax for generators/`yield` from future versions of
JS ([ECMAScript6 or ES6](http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts), experimentally implemented in Node.js v0.11) and
spits out efficient JS-of-today (ES5) that behaves the same way.
A small runtime library (less than 1KB compressed) is required to provide the
`wrapGenerator` function. You can install it either as a CommonJS module
or as a standalone .js file, whichever you prefer.
Installation
From NPM:
```sh
npm install -g regenerator
```
From GitHub:
```sh
cd path/to/node_modules
git clone git://github.com/facebook/regenerator.git
cd regenerator
npm install .
npm test
```
Usage
You have several options for using this module.
Simplest usage:
```sh
regenerator es6.js > es5.js # Just the transform.
regenerator --include-runtime es6.js > es5.js # Add the runtime too.
```
Programmatic usage:
```js
var es5Source = require("regenerator")(es6Source);
var es5SourceWithRuntime = require("regenerator")(es6Source, { includeRuntime: true });
```
AST transformation:
```js
var recast = require("recast");
var ast = recast.parse(es6Source);
ast = require("regenerator").transform(ast);
var es5Source = recast.print(ast);
```
How can you get involved?
The easiest way to get involved is to look for buggy examples using [the
sandbox](http://facebook.github.io/regenerator/), and when you find
something strange just click the "report a bug" link (the new issue form
will be populated automatically with the problematic code).
Alternatively, you can
[fork](https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/fork) the repository,
create some failing tests cases in [test/tests.es6.js](test/tests.es6.js),
and send pull requests for me to fix.
If you're feeling especially brave, you are more than welcome to dive into
the transformer code and fix the bug(s) yourself, but I must warn you that
the code could really benefit from [better implementation
comments](https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/issues/7).