---
title: "Creating Your Own JavaScript Syntax"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-your-own-javascript-syntax-k8dvx3z6d
source_url: https://dephraiim.hashnode.dev/creating-your-own-javascript-syntax
type: article
source: "Hashnode"
author: "Ephraim Duncan"
published: 2020-11-25T11:12:12.901Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["javascript"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 13
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Creating Your Own JavaScript Syntax

**[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@ephraimduncan](https://daily.dev/ephraimduncan) · 16 min read · 13 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

We are going to implement a new syntax for declaring variables in JavaScript. For simplicity, our compiler will only support numbers, strings, boolean and null. The new syntax definition will be below. The general idea of how compilers work is that they work in three stages: parsing, transformation and generation.

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**@ghost** · 3 upvotes

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