unjs/magic-regexp

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4338 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-10-02

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magic-regexp is a TypeScript library providing a readable, natural-language builder for regular expressions with automatically typed capture groups. It ships with build-time transforms (for Nuxt, Vite, webpack, unbuild) that compile expressions to plain RegExp for zero runtime overhead.

Use cases

• write readable regex without cryptic syntax
• get type-safe capture groups from regular expressions
• compile regex builders away at build time to plain RegExp
• build regular expressions with a natural language fluent API
• validate and extract strings with typed regex matches

When to choose

• you want maintainable, self-documenting regex in a TypeScript project
• you need typed capture groups instead of untyped match results
• you use Nuxt, Vite, or webpack and want zero-runtime compiled regex

When to avoid

• you need advanced regex features not covered by the builder API
• you are not using TypeScript and cannot benefit from the type safety
• you need maximum performance from hand-tuned raw regex

Facets

library · maturity active

parser developer-tools type-system developer-tools programming-languages web-development cross-platform regex regexp type-safe build-time-transform nuxt vite-plugin nodejs typescript

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