Missing docs for informative-docs > excludedTags option

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Motivation

jsdoc/informative-docs will scan the body and all tags of a JSDoc tag for informative-ness. This is good and intended in most cases. But sometimes, there are tags that are used as categorization / metadata and only coincidentally match the name of the construct they're documenting. For example:

/**
 * Calculates and retrieves the compiler options for the current project.
 * @category Compiler Options
 */
function getCompilerOptions() {
  // ...
}

Standalone reproduction of that snippet for reference: https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/repros/tree/jsdoc-informative-docs-category-tag

Current behavior

  3:1  error  This tag description only repeats the name it describes  jsdoc/informative-docs

Desired behavior

Can we add an option to the rule to allow a list of tags to be ignored? Say, ignoredTags?

"jsdoc/informative-docs": ["error", {
  "ignoredTags": ["category"]
}]

Alternatives considered

An inline disable comment is doable, but clutters the code and is generally inconvenient.

[brettz9]

There is already an excludedTags array option... It just isn't currently documented.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Aha! #1153 - that must be why it didn't come up in my searches. Nice. Thanks - will send a docs PR.

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:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 48.2.2 :tada:

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