comment-eraser

Removing comments from JavaScript files has never been this easy.

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Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• API
  • erase
  • eraseFromString
• Configuration
• Interactive Mode
• Cli Tool

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save comment-eraser

Usage

const { erase } = require('comment-eraser');

// reads eraser.config.json - falls back to DEFAULT_CONFIG if not specified
// removes comments from specified .js files
erase();

const { eraseFromString } = require('comment-eraser');

// config
const config = {
  type: 'both',
  code: jsCodeString
};

const [commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, elapsedTime] = eraseFromString(config);

console.log(commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, elapsedTime);

API

erase

Erases comments from the specified files - Read Configuration and Interactive Mode for more.

Params

• configPath: String - optional - default is 'eraser.config.json'

Returns

• { filePath, outputPath, commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, elapsedTime }[] | undefined: { String, String, String, Number, TimeStamp }[ ] | undefined

Notes

• note that when interactive is set to true the logs will no longer be available to you and the function will return undefined

Example

// note that this function needs no argument to be passed to it
// since it reads and utilizes eraser.config.json

const { erase } = require('comment-eraser');

const logs = erase();
console.log(logs);

eraseFromString

Erases comments from the given string.

Params

• code: String
• config: Object
  • type: 'both' | 'inline' | 'block'
  • excludePatterns: String[ ] - specifies comment patterns not to be excluded - default is []
  • note that each pattern must be a valid RegExp pattern or an error will be thrown
  • output: { path: String, file: String, append: Boolean }
    • path: String - default is ''
    • file: String - default is 'output.js'
    • append: Boolean - default is false

Returns

• [commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, outputPath, elapsedTime]: [ String, Number, (String | null), TimeStamp ]

Notes

• if no output object is passed then the result won't be written to a file
• in order to use the default output config pass {} as the outputoption
• if two function calls have the same output option:
  • append set to true - all results will be appended to the file
  • append set to false - only the result of the last function call will be written to the file

Example

// note that in this example no new file is created
// as no config or output option is passed down to the function

const { eraseFromString } = require('comment-eraser');

const sampleString = '// a comment \n sample js code';
const [ commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, elapsedTime ] = eraseFromString(sampleString);
console.log(commentsRemoved, removedCharsCount, outputPath, elapsedTime);

Configuration

utilized by the erase function

eraser.config.json

• type: 'both' | 'inline' | 'block' specifies the comment type to be erased
  • both: default - all comments
  • inline: inline comments only
  • block: block comments only
• include: String | String[ ] - glob pattern - js files to be included - default is ./**/*
• exclude: String[ ] - glob pattern - js files to be excluded - default is []
• writeToOutput: Boolean - specifies whether to write the output string into specific files - default is true
  • based on replace, outputDir, postfix
• replace: Boolean - specifies whether to replace the file's content after removing the comments or not - default is false
  • will override outputDir and postfixif specified
• outputDir: String - specifies the directory in which the new files are going the be created - default is no-comments
• postfix: String - specifies the postfix to be added to the new files generated after the comment removal process - default is -no-comments
• excludePatterns: String[ ] - specifies comment patterns not to be excluded - default is []
  • note that each pattern must be a valid RegExp pattern or an error will be thrown
• interactive: Boolean - activates interactive mode if set to true - default is false

Interactive Mode

In this mode a temp file named prelog is created in which you can specify which files to include or not include one by one and then hit Enter to continue the process based on the prelog file

• set interactive to true to activate in eraser.config.json
• only available when using the erase function
• =y: include file - default for all files
• =n: exclude file
• note that the prelog file will be removed after the process is finished

Exmaple - prelog

sample.js=y
sample-2.js=n

Cli Tool

eraser-cli - the cli tool for this package easily integrate the comment-eraser into your build process or install it globally and use it wherever you want