How To Map Your Code
Most of the tools we use on daily basis to develop applications with any kind of programming language need to understand our code in order to help us while we are writing, reading, or creating code. We open an editor, we read highlighted code, we like suggestions when we write a dot and we use compilers, minifiers, compressors, obfuscators, converters, documentation generators ... but have we ever though about the program behind our same program? Have we never thought that highlights, suggestions, minifications, and syntax analyzer do not come for free and these are primordial programs we've ever used often without even realizing we are using it? This post is about general suggestions, techniques, and practices, used to map code. In this specific case, we will analyze step by step the logic behind a code mapper using the most used programming language in the world: JavaScript . Map VS Tokens First of all we need to understand what we need. A Map could be considered a generic list...