/**
 * Strips `//` line comments and `/* *\/` block comments from JavaScript /
 * TypeScript source code, while preserving the verbatim content of:
 *
 * - single-quoted strings (`'...'`)
 * - double-quoted strings (`"..."`)
 * - template literals (`` `...` ``), including nested `${ ... }`
 *   interpolations which may themselves contain strings or further templates
 *
 * Newlines are preserved so that downstream consumers that care about
 * line/column information (e.g. source-map-adjacent tooling) keep stable
 * offsets. Block-comment bodies are replaced with the newlines they
 * contained; line-comment bodies are removed up to (but not including) the
 * terminating newline.
 *
 * Implementation is an in-house state-machine scanner — preferred over a
 * dependency because the algorithm is small, deterministic, and avoids
 * surprises around nested template interpolations.
 *
 * @param code - JS/TS source to scrub
 * @returns the same source with comments removed and strings preserved
 */
declare function stripComments(code: string): string;

export { stripComments };