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Let's document: tree-sitter

Author: sebastiaanspeckCreated Sep 28, 2026Updated Sep 28, 2026
Labelsnew commandhelp wantedlet's document

Command description

Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited.

Documentation

https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

Platform

Common

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter

Additional information

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Commands

  • tree-sitter build (b as alias)
  • tree-sitter complete (comp as alias)
  • tree-sitter dump-languages (langs as alias)
  • tree-sitter fuzz (f as alias)
  • tree-sitter generate (gen and g as aliases)
  • tree-sitter highlight (hi as alias)
  • tree-sitter init (i as alias)
  • tree-sitter init-config
  • tree-sitter parse (p as alias)
  • tree-sitter playground (play, pg, web-ui as aliases)
  • tree-sitter query (q as alias)
  • tree-sitter tags
  • tree-sitter test (t as alias)
  • tree-sitter version (publish as alias)