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		msoad on March 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code What if we source control straight up AST instead of code? Each tool can decide how to render it... I bet if Github supports such thing it will become standard

financequoll on March 9, 2018 [–]

Well, you can already commit an AST if you really want to: just serialise the ESTree[0] to JSON and commit that.

But committing unreadable JSON files to version control rather defeats most of the features of version control.

[0] https://github.com/estree/estree

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