decomment

What is decomment?

The decomment npm package is used to remove comments from JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code. It helps in cleaning up code by stripping out unnecessary comments, which can be useful for production environments where comments are not needed.

What are decomment's main functionalities?

Remove JavaScript Comments

This feature removes both block and inline comments from JavaScript code. The provided code sample demonstrates how to use decomment to clean a JavaScript string by removing comments.

const decomment = require('decomment');
const jsCode = '/* This is a comment */\nconst a = 5; // inline comment';
const cleanJsCode = decomment(jsCode);
console.log(cleanJsCode);

Remove HTML Comments

This feature removes comments from HTML code. The code sample shows how to use decomment to strip out comments from an HTML string.

const decomment = require('decomment');
const htmlCode = '<!-- This is a comment --><div>Content</div><!-- Another comment -->';
const cleanHtmlCode = decomment(htmlCode);
console.log(cleanHtmlCode);

Remove CSS Comments

This feature removes comments from CSS code. The code sample demonstrates how to use decomment to clean a CSS string by removing comments.

const decomment = require('decomment');
const cssCode = '/* This is a comment */\nbody { color: red; }';
const cleanCssCode = decomment(cssCode);
console.log(cleanCssCode);

Other packages similar to decomment

strip-comments

The strip-comments package is used to remove comments from JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. It offers similar functionality to decomment but provides more granular control over the types of comments to remove, such as block, line, and safe comments.

uglify-js

UglifyJS is a JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor, and beautifier toolkit. While its primary purpose is to minify JavaScript code, it also removes comments in the process. It is more feature-rich compared to decomment but is focused mainly on JavaScript.

clean-css

clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer that also removes comments as part of its optimization process. It is more specialized for CSS compared to decomment, offering advanced minification and optimization features.

README

decomment

Removes comments from JavaScript and JSON.

This library is in its early stage of development.