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ES6 support!

Islam Sharabash recently read my blog post about how to refactor his JavaScript code with Grasp, a command line utility like grep or sed that allows him to search and replace his JavaScript code based on its structure, rather than simply its text. Using the tool, he wanted to refactor some code to change x.y.last() to last(x.y), for a pull request he was making on aredridel/html5.

A couple of weeks ago I published a post on Refactoring your JavaScript code with Grasp which received many hits and was widely shared, greatly increasing interest in Grasp! Along with being featured in JavaScript Weekly issue #163, many people tweeted about Grasp - here is a small selection:

There’s more to programming than just writing code. While unlikely, it is possible to write imperfect code the first time through, or have requirements change over time. In these cases, you have to refactor the code you’ve already written to fix mistakes and change functionality.

Grasp 0.2.0 has been released!

The first version of Grasp, 0.1.0, has been released!