A naïve attempt at parsing CSS in JavaScript – Part 5: parsing hash tokens

The next item in the description on how to interpret characters in CSS is to deal with the number sign #. This signifies the start of a hash token or a delim token.

In this iteration, some helper functions have been extracted out. For example isNameStartCodePoint and IsNameCodePoint which correspond to their respective descriptions in the specification.

const letterPattern = /[a-zA-Z]/
const isNonAscii = char => char.charCodeAt(0) > 128;

// https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#name-start-code-point
const isNameStartCodePoint = char => {
	const result = char === '_' || isNonAscii(char) || letterPattern.test(char)
	return result
}

const digitPattern = /[0-9]/

// https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#name-code-point
const isNameCodePoint = char => {
	const result = char === '-' || digitPattern.test(char) || isNameStartCodePoint(char)
	return result
}

const isValidEscape = (next, nPlus1) => {
	if (next !== '\\') {
		return false;
	}
	if (nPlus1 === '\n') {
		return false;
	}
	return true;
};

// https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#would-start-an-identifier
const startsIdentifier = (n, nPlus1, nPlus2) => {
	if (n === '-') {
		return isNameStartCodePoint(nPlus1) || (nPlus1 === '-') || isValidEscape(nPlus1, nPlus2)
	}
	if (isNameStartCodePoint(n)) {
		return true
	}
	if (n === '\\' && isValidEscape(n, nPlus1)) {
		return true
	}
	return false
}

const consumeComment = (cssStr, iStart) => {
	let cache = '';
	let i = iStart;
	let reachedEnd = false;
	while (i < cssStr.length && !reachedEnd) {
		cache += cssStr[i];
		reachedEnd = cssStr[i - 1] === '*' && cssStr[i] === '/';
		++i;
	}
	const commentToken = {
		t: 'comment',
		v: cache,
	};
	return [i, commentToken];
};

const consumeWhitespace = (cssStr, iStart) => {
	let cache = '';
	let i = iStart;
	let reachedEnd = false;
	while (i < cssStr.length && !reachedEnd) {
		const next = cssStr[i + 1];
		cache += cssStr[i];
		reachedEnd = !(next === ' ' || next === '\n' || next === '\t');
		++i;
	}
	const whitespaceToken = {
		t: 'whitespace',
		v: cache,
	};
	return [i, whitespaceToken];
};

const consumeString = (cssStr, iStart) => {
	let cache = cssStr[iStart];
	let i = iStart + 1;
	let reachedEnd = false;
	const endStringChar = cssStr[iStart];
	while (i < cssStr.length && !reachedEnd) {
		const current = cssStr[i];
		if (current === '\\') {
			cache += current + cssStr[i + 1];
			i += 2;
		} else {
			cache += current;
			reachedEnd = current === endStringChar;
			++i;
		}
	}
	const commentToken = {
		t: 'string',
		v: cache,
	};
	return [i, commentToken];
};

const consumeName = (cssStr, iStart) => {
	let nameString = ''
	let i = iStart
	let endReached = false
	do {
		next = cssStr[i]
		if (isNameCodePoint(next)) {
			nameString += next
			i += 1
		}
		else if (isValidEscape(next, cssStr[i + 1])) {
			nameString += next
			nameString += cssStr[i + 1]
			i += 2
		}
		else {
			endReached = true
			i + 1
		}
	} while (!endReached && i < cssStr.length)
	return [i, nameString]
}

const consumeHashToken = (cssStr, iStart) => {
	let n = cssStr[iStart];
	let nPlus1 = cssStr[iStart + 1];
	let nPlus2 = cssStr[iStart + 2];
	let isId = startsIdentifier(n, nPlus1, nPlus2);
	let nameResult = consumeName(cssStr, iStart + 1)
	const hashToken = {
		t: `hash${isId ? 'Id' : ''}`,
		v: `${n}${nameResult[1]}`
	}
	return [nameResult[0], hashToken]
};

const parse = cssStr => {
	const tokens = [];
	let cache = '';

	const consumeToken = (consumeFunction, iStart) => {
		if (cache) {
			tokens.push({ t: 'plain', v: cache });
			cache = '';
		}
		const result = consumeFunction(cssStr, iStart);
		tokens.push(result[1]);
		return result[0] - 1;
	};
	
	for (let i = 0; i < cssStr.length; i++) {
		const current = cssStr[i];
		const next = cssStr[i + 1];
		if (current === '/' && next === '*') {
			i = consumeToken(consumeComment, i);
		} else if (current === ' ' || current === '\n' || current === '\t') {
			i = consumeToken(consumeWhitespace, i);
		} else if (current === '"' || current === "'") {
			i = consumeToken(consumeString, i);
		} else if (
			current === '#' &&
			(isNameCodePoint(next) || isValidEscape(next, cssStr[i + 2]))
		) {
			i = consumeToken(consumeHashToken, i);
		} else {
			cache += current;
		}
	}
	if (cache) {
		tokens.push({ t: 'plain', v: cache });
	}
	return tokens;
};

console.log(
	JSON.stringify(
		parse(`/* c */
#unique{color:red;}`)
	)
);

// Result:
// [
//   {t:"comment",v:"/* c */"},
//   {t:"whitespace",v:"\n"},
//   {t:"hash",v:"#unique"},
//   {t:"plain",v:"{color:red;}"}
// ]

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