stripcomments-loader - A tiny loader to blanken your code.

While using UglifyJS over WebPack, I realized that the comments weren't stripped, actually. So I decided to write this loader that processes files and cleans them from comments - EXCEPT when debugging is enabled.

Usage

It's recommended to use this as a preLoaders entry to process multiple files that use either // or /* ... */ as comment indicators. Examples include JavaScript and CSS.

module.exports = {
    entry: "./test.js",
    output: {
        path: __dirname,
        filename: "bundle.js"
    },
    module: {
        preLoaders: [
            {
                test: /\.(js|css)$/,
                loader: "stripcomments?-lines"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Now just require any JS or CSS file, and you should see comments getting stripped.

To retain comments, set debug: true. In this case, comments are kept in-place.

Query options

You can control which and what is stripped:

stripcomments?-block

This will only strip block comments. Adding -line will only strip line comments. Supplying both or none, then all will be stripped. Passing +safe will have extra effects on which comments are to be removed.