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Regex Debugger for ECMAScript (JavaScript) engine #1888

Closed Davydx7 closed 2 years ago

Davydx7 commented 2 years ago

Feature

javascript

Hello, This is a request for a regex debugger for the JavaScript regex flavour

The debugger is an essential and useful feature that helps with understanding a piece of regex and helps with visualizing how best to optimize

Given the size of the javascript community, this feature will be useful for a good number of users/projects

I opt for the PCRE debugger where applicable, but the engines differ a lot, especially in look-around support

firasdib commented 2 years ago

There is unfortunately, as far as I know, no way of achieving this for Javascript.