How to render literals inside an expession?

[Sancha Kozlov]

There is no Literal component, which I expected from that library.

Tried to use Smart component:

<CallExpression
    name="fn"
    arguments={
        <Smart code="'a'"/>
    }/>

that gave totally unexpected output for me: fn('a';);

[Clay Risser]

Ok, I'll see if I can add that feature to this.

[dharmendraboddeda]

@cah4a We've made a small but important update in react-ast version 0.4.1

<CallExpression 
           name="fn" 
           arguments={ 
    <StringLiteral>a</StringLiteral>
  } 
/>

[Sancha Kozlov]

That's cool! Thanks!

BooleanLiterals, BigIntLiteral, RegExpLiteral might be useful too.
Maybe we could have the Literal Component with value: unknown, so it will render whatever you pass in?

[Clay Risser]

@cah4a can you explain what you mean by value: unknown. You mean like a <Smart /> component, but one that doesn't add the semi-colon?

[Sancha Kozlov]

I mean something like this:

<CallExpression
    name="fn"
    arguments={
        <Literal value={argument}/>
    }/>

where an argument could be string, number, boolean, bigint, object, symbol, null, or undefined.

I have a feeling the library should be able to render any javascript code, not a subset.

[Clay Risser]

Gotcha, yeah I think we can make that work. We just finished a big refactor to update all the modules to the latest. Should be able to get to this soon.