baybay(ˈbeɪbeɪ)

...is a BBCode parser in JS, returning HTML output.

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Well, honestly, because all the other parsers I looked at were kinda bad.
You don't need 1500 lines for a BBCode parser. You just don't.

So here we are. One loop, a stack and a couple string utils.

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Baybay is a small UMD module and does not depend on anything.
Baybay does its best to be idiot-proof, and will never generate invalid HTML.

var bb = require( "baybay" );
var str = "[b][[i]dumb []t[b]e[/b]xt[x] [color=red]and an[/color] \
[img]http://localhost/image.png";
console.log( bb.parse( str ) );

This example gives you:

[dumb []text[x] and an

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Through Node Package Manager: npm install baybay
Or directly through Git: git clone https://github.com/noorus/baybay.git

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When using baybay in the browser, you might want to build the minified version baybay.min.js.
To do this, call grunt uglify.

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Baybay is licensed under the MIT license.
For full license text, see the LICENSE file.