kach/nearley

nearleyc in a browser

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#267 opened on Aug 17, 2017

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Description

As discussed elsewhere, we should have an API for invoking nearleyc from a script and/or in the browser. Then we can drop docs/using-in-frontend.md entirely.

Ideally, we would do this without rearranging the files in the repo, or breaking backwards compat in other ways.

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Examine the nearleyc CLI source code and separate the compilation logic into a module that can be imported in browser environments. Use webpack or browserify to bundle dependencies without Node.js built ins.
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javascript
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frontend
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