moai-tool-ast-grep

Automated refactoring uses AST-based structural code search to find and replace deprecated API calls across your codebase. By matching syntax patterns instead of text, it performs complex codemod operations to ensure semantic correctness and minimize errors during transformation.

AST-based structural code search finds code patterns based on syntax rather than exact text matching. It analyzes the abstract syntax tree to identify structural relationships, allowing precise pattern matching across 40+ languages and enabling syntax-aware code transformations.

Yes, ast-grep performs security scanning across 40+ languages using AST-aware rules. It detects vulnerabilities by analyzing syntax patterns, allowing you to scan codebases for insecure code structures and apply rule-based scanning to identify potential security issues.

Yes, AST-based structural code search requires the ast-grep CLI installation to function. Once the CLI dependency is installed, you can perform pattern matching, code transformation, and rule-based scanning across supported programming languages.

The best way to find console.log statements is using structural code search with ast-grep to locate syntax patterns in JavaScript files. By targeting the specific directory like src, it matches the exact syntax structure of the console.log call for precise code search results.

AST-based codemods perform complex code transformations semantically, unlike simple find and replace. By understanding syntax structure, ast-grep ensures automated refactoring maintains semantic correctness across 40+ languages, minimizing errors when transforming code patterns like deprecated API calls.