Feature Request Checklist

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• I have searched for related issues and issues with the faq label, but none matched my issue.
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Overview

Mocha currently depends an older major version of strip-json-comments:

Suggested Solution

[email protected] is the latest. It'd be nice to bump to that, so users aren't stuck on a dep that's many major versions behind.

Alternatives

This isn't critical and I don't think we need to do it. But it's nice ecosystem cleanup in general.

I don't know of popular alternatives to strip-json-comments and haven't looked for them.

Additional Info

strip-json-comments@5 still supports older Node.js than Mocha, so I don't believe we're blocked on that. However, it is an ESM-only package, so this could only happen once Mocha requires Node.js versions that include require(ESM) (^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0).