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strip-comments

Strip comments from code. Removes line comments, block comments, the first comment only, or all comments. Optionally leave protected comments unharmed.

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• Install
• Usage
• API
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Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save strip-comments

Usage

By default all comments are stripped.

const strip = require('strip-comments');
const str = strip('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n /* me too *\/');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";\n'

For more use-cases see the tests

API

strip

Strip all code comments from the given input, including protected comments that start with !, unless disabled by setting options.keepProtected to true.

Params

• input {String}: string from which to strip comments
• options {Object}: optional options, passed to extract-comments
• returns {String}: modified input

Options

• line {Boolean}: if false strip only block comments, default true
• block {Boolean}: if false strip only line comments, default true
• keepProtected {Boolean}: Keep ignored comments (e.g. /*!, /**! and //!)
• preserveNewlines {Boolean}: Preserve newlines after comments are stripped

Example

const str = strip('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n /* me too */');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";'

.block

Strip only block comments.

Params

• input {String}: string from which to strip comments
• options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep ignored comments (e.g. /*!)
• returns {String}: modified string

Example

const strip = require('..');
const str = strip.block('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n /* me too */');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";// this is a comment'

.line

Strip only line comments.

Params

• input {String}: string from which to strip comments
• options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep ignored comments (e.g. //!)
• returns {String}: modified string

Example

const str = strip.line('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n /* me too */');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";\n/* me too */'

.first

Strip the first comment from the given input. Or, if opts.keepProtected is true, the first non-protected comment will be stripped.

Params

• input {String}
• options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep comments with !
• returns {String}

Example

const output = strip.first(input, { keepProtected: true });
console.log(output);
// => '//! first comment\nfoo; '

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Running Tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Building docs

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Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

• babel-extract-comments: Uses babel (babylon) to extract JavaScript code comments from a JavaScript string or file. | homepage
• code-context: Parse a string of javascript to determine the context for functions, variables and comments based… more | homepage
• extract-comments: Uses esprima to extract line and block comments from a string of JavaScript. Also optionally… more | homepage
• parse-code-context: Parse code context in a single line of javascript, for functions, variable declarations, methods, prototype… more | homepage
• parse-comments: Parse code comments from JavaScript or any language that uses the same format. | homepage

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
59	jonschlinkert
4	charlike-old
2	mk-pmb
1	kgryte
1	epicoxymoron

Author

Jon Schlinkert

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License

Copyright © 2018, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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