Strip comments from inlined assets

[kitsonk]

The inlined .d.ts files contain a lot of JSDoc comments that enrich the IDE experience but are totally useless in the runtime. These should be stripped out during the build process. I have an idea on how to do this.

[ry]

Yeah - sounds good

[Pato91]

A while back I was looking into that and I also do not know how to do it but there was an interesting conversation that caught my eye in the TypesScript issues particulary issue 2,705 that seem to suggest that we either have the JSDoc comments or not but all in all it seems that we disable this within the TypeScript compiler by enabling the

removeComments
compile option in the tsconfig.js file

But all in all, there are interesting conversations going about on this within the typescript issues panel.

[kitsonk]

The challenge is that these are not transpiled files, they are existing declaration files, so they need to be passed and their "triva" removed.

[bartlomieju]

@kitsonk is this issue still relevant?

[kitsonk]

Still relevant, just my initial attempt didn't go so well. It extra binary weight we don't need.

[kitsonk]

It isn't straight forward and I think we can worry about it some other time.