Uses babel (babylon) to extract JavaScript code comments from a JavaScript string or file.
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Install with npm:
$ npm install --save babel-extract-commentsAdd to your Node.js/JavaScript project with the following line of code:
const extract = require('babel-extract-comments');Extract code comments from the given string.
Params
string{String}: String of javascriptreturns{Array}: Array of code comment objects.
Example
var extract = require('babel-extract-comments');
console.log(extract('// this is a code comment'));
// [{ type: 'CommentBlock',
// value: '!\n * babel-extract-comments <https://github.com/jonschlinkert/babel-extract-comments>\n *\n *
// Copyright (c) 2014-2018, Jon Schlinkert.\n * Released under the MIT License.\n ',
// start: 0,
// end: 173,
// loc: SourceLocation { start: [Position], end: [Position] } }]Extract code comments from a JavaScript file.
Params
file{String}: Filepath to the file to parse.options{Object}: Options to pass to esprima.returns{Array}: Array of code comment objects.
Example
console.log(extract.file('some-file.js'), { cwd: 'some/path' });
// [ { type: 'Line',
// value: ' this is a line comment',
// range: [ 0, 25 ],
// loc: { start: { line: 1, column: 0 }, end: { line: 1, column: 25 } } } ]Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Running Tests
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
$ npm install && npm testBuilding docs
(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)
To generate the readme, run the following command:
$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verbYou might also be interested in these projects:
- esprima-extract-comments: Extract code comments from string or from a glob of files using esprima. | homepage
- extract-comments: Uses esprima to extract line and block comments from a string of JavaScript. Also optionally… more | homepage
- js-comments: Parse JavaScript code comments and generate API documentation. | homepage
- parse-comments: Parse code comments from JavaScript or any language that uses the same format. | homepage
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Jon Schlinkert
Copyright © 2018, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.
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