comments

• Type: boolean | object with the properties below
• Optional

Defined in: options/output-options.ts:626

Control which comments are preserved in the output.

• true: Preserve legal, annotation, and JSDoc comments (default)
• false: Strip all comments
• Object: Granular control over comment categories

Note: Regular line and block comments without these markers are always removed regardless of this option.

When both legalComments and comments.legal are set, comments.legal takes priority.

WARNING

Some comments may be still removed due to some known bugs: #7257, #7387

Default

true

annotation?

• Type: boolean
• Optional

Defined in: options/output-options.ts:113

Comments that contain @__PURE__, @__NO_SIDE_EFFECTS__ or @vite-ignore

jsdoc?

• Type: boolean
• Optional

Defined in: options/output-options.ts:117

JSDoc comments

legal?

• Type: boolean
• Optional

Defined in: options/output-options.ts:109

Comments that contain @license, @preserve or start with //! or /*!