
ast-grep
A polyglot tool for code searching, linting, rewriting
ast-grep launched on May 11, 2023 with 66 votes, #1,359 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
ast-grep(sg) is a fast and polyglot tool for code searching, linting, and rewriting at large scale. Think it as a hybrid of grep, eslint, and codemod. But for all programming languages with super fast running speed!
ast-grep is a fast and polyglot tool for code structural search, lint, rewriting at large scale.
ast-grep(sg) is a fast and polyglot tool for code structural search, lint, rewriting at large scale. ast-grep is a code tool for structural search and replace . It is like syntax-aware grep/sed! You can write code patterns to locate and modify code, based on AST, in thousands of files, interactively . ast-grep is a versatile and flexible tool for linting code with AST patterns. You can easily add new customized rules with intuitive syntax and enjoy pretty error reporting out of box. ast-grep also provides node-js binding to access syntax trees programmatically. You can use jQuery like utility methods to traverse syntax tree nodes. Node API also has opt-in type safety . Blazing fast search…from ast-grep.github.io
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- AGAST-grep, a grep/eslint/codemod hybrid tool, powered by tree-sitter.2023 · ast-grep.github.io · ▲11
It is heavily inspired by semgrep, but intends to be an AST-base searcher/linter/rewriter. https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

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