How To Install node-esquery on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-esquery on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-esquery is query library for ECMAScript AST using CSS-like queries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-esquery on Debian 12.

What is node-esquery

node-esquery is:

ESQuery is a library for querying the AST output by Esprima for patterns of syntax using a CSS style selector system.

Esprima is a high performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser written in ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript).

An abstract syntax tree (AST) is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of source code written in a programming language. Each node of the tree denotes a construct occurring in the source code.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.

There are three methods to install node-esquery on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-esquery Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-esquery using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-esquery

Install node-esquery Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-esquery using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-esquery

Install node-esquery Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-esquery using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-esquery

How To Uninstall node-esquery on Debian 12

To uninstall only the node-esquery package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-esquery

Uninstall node-esquery And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-esquery and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-esquery

Remove node-esquery Configurations and Data

To remove node-esquery configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-esquery

Remove node-esquery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-esquery configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-esquery

Dependencies

node-esquery have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-esquery package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.