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# Opal Compiler Opal is a source to source compiler. It accepts ruby code as a string and generates javascript code which can be run in any environment. Generated code relies on the opal runtime which provides the class system and some other runtime helpers. ## Compiler stages The compiler can be broken down into 3 separate stages: * lexing + parsing * code generation ### Lexer/Parser The [opal parser][parser] relies on the `parser` gem, see debug/development documentation there to know more about its internals: https://whitequark.github.io/parser/. ### Code generation The [opal compiler][compiler] takes these sexps from the parser and generates ruby code from them. Each type of sexp has [its own node type][base-node] used to generate javascript. Each node creates an array of one or more [fragments][fragments] which are the concatenated together to form the final javascript. Fragments are used as they contain the generated code as well as a reference back to the original sexp which is useful for generating source maps afterwards. [parser]: https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/lib/opal/parser.rb [compiler]: https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/lib/opal/compiler.rb [fragments]: https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/lib/opal/fragment.rb [base-node]: https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/lib/opal/nodes/base.rb
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