The stripcomments from moagrius

stripcomments's Introduction

Simple JS parser to strip comments

// this is a comment

/* this
 * is a multiline
 * comment
*/

Usage is simple - create an instance and call .strip(string) to get back the de-commented string...

var cs = new CommentStripper();
console.log( cs.strip(someString) );

It's intended to be 100% effective - catching any valid comment, including:

var a = 10; // comment
var a = "http://www.github.com"; // more comments
var a = function(arg /*, ...rest */)

etc.

I've tested it a bit against use-cases I could think of, and tried it against a few common libraries (e.g., the dev version of jQuery), and it seems fine, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone breaks it.

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stripcomments's Issues

//x/

Fails when the first character of a multiline comment is slash.
/*/x*/
(you still see the x)
Perhaps adding this.next(); here might help. It works, but I haven't tested it more than a few seconds.

RegExp support

These 2 examples are detected as comment when in fact they're valid RegExp:

var a = /\/*x*/;
var b = /x\//;

Current (mistaken) output:

var a = /\;
var b = /x\

Fixing this needs some important changes.

License?

Two things:

Could you please add the information under which license (e.g. MIT) your code is released?
Would it be possible to release this as an npm package so it can be used in Node.js via 'require'? In case you don't have the time, would you allow someone else to fork your code in order to accomplish this?

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