Script using babel to strip all comments from JavaScript files

strip-js-comments-run.md

chmod +x strip-js-comments.mjs
npm install --save @babel/generator
npm install --save @babel/parser
./strip-js-comments.mjs assets/js/script.js

strip-js-comments.mjs

#!/usr/bin/env node
import { parse } from "@babel/parser";
import { CodeGenerator } from "@babel/generator";
import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'fs';

const code = readFileSync(process.argv[2]).toString();

const ast = parse(code);

const generator = new CodeGenerator(ast, {comments: false}, code);
writeFileSync(process.argv[2], generator.generate().code);