Free software1 sections · 2 min readBy Dezső Mező.mdFree softwareSylex
Sylex is an interactive regex explainer that breaks any pattern down into its parts and tells you what each one does. It runs on a hand-rolled lexer rather than the browser's regex engine, which is what lets it flag ReDoS-prone constructs and power a native $-expansion replace mode in the same pass. It is a from-scratch, dependency-free build that runs entirely in the browser, so you can download it and run it locally.
01About the app
Frontend craft on a tricky domain
What to take away
- A hand-rolled regex lexer powers the explainer; ReDoS detection and native $-expansion replace mode round it out - all client-side, dependency-free.
- Download: Sylex (ZIP)
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