gulp-strip-react-dom-comment

Strips the /** @jsx React.DOM */ from pipes to support tools which can't handle the comment.

When would this matter?

When using a tool that uses JavaDoc style extension comments, which panics on seeing an extension comment it doesn't recognize. Examples include many documentation extraction tools, such as YUIDoc, which prompted this being written.

Using YUIDoc as an example, you might find a rule in a gulpfile like this:

gulp.task('yuidoc', [], function() {
    gulp.src(['js/**/*.js', 'js/**/*.jsx'])
        .pipe(template({pkg: pkg}))    // Process source files first
        .pipe(yuidoc.parser())         // Then parse
        .pipe(yuidoc.reporter())       // Then report
        .pipe(yuidoc.generator())      // aaaaaand generate
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./doc/yuidoc-inked'));
});

Unfortunately, even though this rule is generally correct, this will kersplode and die, because YUIDoc expects comments in /** @foo\n * @bar\n */\n form, and the React JSX signal comment /** @jsx React.DOM */ incorrectly triggers that as a YUIDoc rule, which in turn fails because it's missing YUIDoc requirements.

As a result, you'll see something that looks roughly like this:

$ gulp build
[00:19:28] Starting 'yuidoc'...
[00:19:28] Finished 'yuidoc' after 5.24 ms

\projects\site\js\app.jsx
  line 1    Missing item type

\projects\site\js\components\Layout.jsx
  line 1    Missing item type

\projects\site\js\components\Routes.jsx
  line 1    Missing item type

3 problems

To fix this, you'd want the React JSX line automatically removed, which this plugin does. First require the plugin:

var stripDomComment = require('gulp-strip-react-dom-comment');

Then add a line to our previous gulp rule, like so:

...
        .pipe(template({pkg: pkg}))
        .pipe(stripDomComment())       // Add me here to fix the problem!
        .pipe(yuidoc.parser())
...

And thus, our point.

Polemic :neckbeard:

gulp-strip-react-dom-comment is MIT licensed, because viral licenses and newspeak language modification are evil. Free is only free when it's free for everyone.