Utility Libraries for Traversing and Manipulating Tree-like Data Structures with Varying Schemas

Abstract

Tree-like data structures are very commonly used data types found in the wild in a wide array of projects JavaScript projects. A specific example of one of these structures is an abstract syntax tree (AST). However, the lack of good libraries to handle trees has led to many developers and large-scale code bases having to implement their utility functions over and over again. To address these concerns within the JavaScript developer community, we propose Treecle and Vastly: two free open-source libraries that provide utility functions and operations to help developers work with trees and ASTs respectively.