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Strip comments from JS files via `removeComments: true`

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by locating the package's tsconfig and review its compiler options, especially the requested removeComments setting. Build the package and inspect the generated JavaScript and .d.ts output; done means source comments are absent from the JavaScript while declaration output remains available.

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Description

Area: NodeApi triage

The JS files in this package are full of source comments that are already mirrored in the .d.ts files. It's just adding extra weight to node_modules for no reason. Can you enable 'removeComments' in the tsconfig?

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
502
Forks
244
Avg merge
2h 24m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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