VS Code Comment Remover

A Visual Studio Code extension that removes comments from your source code.
Supports line comments, block comments, and JSDoc comments across multiple languages.
Includes customization options for preserving important comments and advanced regex filtering.

✨ Features

• Remove all comments at once
• Remove only line comments
• Remove only block comments
• Remove JSDoc comments (/** ... */)
• Remove comments matching regex patterns
• Run automatically on save
• Preserve shebang lines (e.g. #!/usr/bin/env node)
• Preserve first block headers (e.g. license text)
• Supports C-like, hash-based, and HTML-style comments

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

👉 Shortcuts can be customized in:
File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts → search for commentRemover.

⚙️ Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings in your settings.json:

{
  // Run automatically on save
  "commentRemover.onSave": false,

  // Remove JSDoc /** ... */ comments
  "commentRemover.removeDocComments": false,

  // Preserve first block comment in file (e.g. license headers)
  "commentRemover.preserveFirstBlock": true,

  // Preserve shebangs like #!/usr/bin/env node
  "commentRemover.preserveShebang": true,

  // Define patterns to KEEP (regex per language or global)
  "commentRemover.keepPatterns": {
    "global": ["TODO", "FIXME", "KEEP"],
    "javascript": ["DEBUG", "IMPORTANT"]
  },

  // Limit removal to only selected text (instead of full file)
  "commentRemover.workspaceScope": "selection"
}