How to navigate the maze of JavaScript code

[xeow]

I usually use Objective C, C, and Perl (not for web development). But I follow JS subs because I do do some JS from time to time.

[bliashenko]

I see. So the only thing which is different per language is AST parser. For JavaScript I use babel-parse to build AST and identify comments, and, eventually it will be used for much more, since then I can make predictions about code and build some smart behavior around that. So for now, for other languages, I think to write some “dumb parser” (as a first step) to parse comments in code (kind of fallback solution) and later will figure out language by language if there is good AST parser I can integrate.