Switched to using super-regex for matching.

Author: neogeek

package-lock.json

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
     "node": "^14.15.0 || ^16.10.0 || >=18.0.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "comment-parser": "1.3.1"
+    "comment-parser": "1.3.1",
+    "super-regex": "0.2.0"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
     "doxdox-core": "4.0.0-preview.16"

packages/doxdox-parser-custom/package.json

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ import { File, Method, multiLinePatternMatch, slugify } from 'doxdox-core';
 
 import { parse as commentParse } from 'comment-parser';
 
+import { firstMatch, matches } from 'super-regex';
+
+const REGEX_TIMEOUT = 1000;
+
 const JSDOC_PATTERN = /[ \t]*\/\*\*\s*\n?([^*]*(\*[^/])?)*\*\//g;
 
 const IDENTIFIER_PATTERNS = [
@@ -36,8 +40,9 @@ export const parseString = async (
     path: string,
     content: string
 ): Promise<File> => {
-    const comments =
-        content.match(JSDOC_PATTERN) || ([] as unknown as string[]);
+    const comments = Array.from(
+        matches(JSDOC_PATTERN, content, { timeout: REGEX_TIMEOUT })
+    ).map(({ match }) => match);
 
     const methods = comments.map(comment => ({
         rawComment: comment,
@@ -71,10 +76,14 @@ export const parseString = async (
         const [firstLine] = method.code.trim().split(/\r?\n/);
 
         for (let i = 0; i < IDENTIFIER_PATTERNS.length; i += 1) {
-            const matches = firstLine.trim().match(IDENTIFIER_PATTERNS[i]);
-
-            if (matches) {
-                method.name = matches[1];
+            const results = firstMatch(
+                IDENTIFIER_PATTERNS[i],
+                firstLine.trim(),
+                { timeout: REGEX_TIMEOUT }
+            );
+
+            if (results) {
+                method.name = results.groups[0];
 
                 break;
             }