Let me save you 8 kilobytes of dependency and a new API to learn (and debug, when you start wondering why your ReX built regex isn't working how you want). Appa

Let me save you 8 kilobytes of dependency and a new API to learn (and debug, when you start wondering why your ReX built regex isn't working how you want). Apparently the main "feature" of ReX is you get to annotate the components of a regex string. // match something that looks like a date in the form 02-14-1924 let x = ""; x += '\d{2}'; // match the month x += '\-'; x += '\d{2}'; // match the day x += '\-'; x += '\d{4}'; // match the year Even this is horribly overcomplicated example would just be `\d{2}\-\d{2}\-\d{4}`. The Rex library provides no useful abstractions to simplify vanilla javascript and regex. If a (dynamically built) regex misbehaves, I'm only inspecting the lines of code that compose the string, not an entire library to understand what went wrong.