Comparison with jsinspect

[webuniverseio]

Hi, I wonder what are the pros/cons of using synt over jsinspect. Thank you.

[brentlintner]

Hey @szarouski thanks for the issue/question. :-)

I didn't know about this project. Seems cool and very similar!

The main differences (I could be wrong as I did a quick test) seems to be that:

• synt only finds method/class nodes, where jsinspect looks at other things like string literals, similar array assignments, etc.
• synt calculates similar and duplicate code by calculating the Jaccard index on ngram sets, where it looks like jsinspect creates a hash of name/type values and matches against that
• jsinspect supports flow and jsx (see Enable JSX support via setting Esprima's and TypeScript's JSX flag #83), but synt supports TypeScript

Screenshot I took of two methods both projects found:

[webuniverseio]

Thank you so much for your reply & great project 👍