Are there ways to parse strings instead of files?

[Teajey]

I want to be able to programmatically format some Typescript that I've generated in my project https://github.com/Teajey/accord

I feel like I should be able to input an unformatted string of Typescript, and receive a formatted string of Typescript as output. But so far I've only been able to find functions, such as parse_js, in these libraries that take a path to a file as input. That would be fine except for in my tests I don't want to have to write Typescript to a file in order to format it...

So is this possible, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[hyf0]

You should be able to use swc_ecma_parser directly, instead of swc crate.
See https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/main/crates/swc_ecma_parser/examples/typescript.rs

[Viijay-Kr]

@Teajey Were you able to format the typescript output ? If yes can you please share your approach. I m working on a similar project and I would expect the output TS source should be formatted

[Teajey]

Sorry @Viijay-Kr. It's been long enough that I actually can't exactly remember why I was trying to achieve this. I don't remember ever figuring out how to programmatically format Typescript strings

[Viijay-Kr]

All good . Thanks for the reply. I m thinking of using Biome formatter for my use case

[acao]

@Viijay-Kr if you prefer prettier's formatting, you can just use the prettier API libraries!