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Summary

  • Add detailed JSDoc documentation to parse and parseSync functions explaining their performance characteristics
  • Clarify that parseSync is generally preferable since AST deserialization happens on the main thread anyway
  • Recommend using worker threads with parseSync for parallelizing multiple files

Closes #15361

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Pull request overview

Updates the Node.js parser binding documentation to clarify guidance on when to use synchronous (parseSync) vs asynchronous (parse) parsing.

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  • Expanded Rust doc comments for parse_sync / parse describing threading and performance tradeoffs.
  • Updated TypeScript declaration JSDoc (index.d.ts) to mirror the clarified guidance.

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napi/parser/src/lib.rs Adds detailed Rust doc comments explaining sync vs async parsing behavior and performance considerations.
napi/parser/src-js/index.d.ts Updates exported API JSDoc to clarify recommended usage patterns for parse vs parseSync.

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## Summary

- Add detailed JSDoc documentation to `parse` and `parseSync` functions explaining their performance characteristics
- Clarify that `parseSync` is generally preferable since AST deserialization happens on the main thread anyway
- Recommend using worker threads with `parseSync` for parallelizing multiple files

Closes #15361

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### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES

- 22dec6a semantic: [**BREAKING**] Remove
`Scoping::scope_build_child_ids` and all related APIs (#18362) (Dunqing)
- 30a4899 oxc: [**BREAKING**] Remove
`CompilerInterface::semantic_child_scope_ids` (#18361) (Dunqing)
- 777fc40 ast: [**BREAKING**] Add `Ident` type (#18354) (Boshen)
- af0ca46 span: [**BREAKING**] Use `ModuleKind::CommonJS` for
`SourceType::cjs()` (#18276) (sapphi-red)

### 🚀 Features

- 0a02026 semantic: Add TS1499 code to diagnostic (#18557) (camc314)
- 8b4618f parser: Add TS1500 code to diagnostic (#18547) (camc314)
- 866b6b3 parser: Add TS1048 code to diagnostic (#18546) (camc314)
- 1117c44 parser: Add TS1054 code to diagnostic (#18541) (camc314)
- e4fcdde semantic: Add TS1053 code to diagnostic (#18539) (camc314)
- bcbf396 semantic: Add TS1052 code to diagnostic (#18538) (camc314)
- 8155edf semantic: Add TS1049 code to diagnostic (#18535) (camc314)
- 51d3b3f parser: Add TS1502 code to diagnostic (#18534) (camc314)
- 00854e8 semantic: Add TS2337 error code to super call diagnostic
(#18531) (camc314)
- 993fd2b parser: Parse unambiguous await with better error messages
(#18480) (Boshen)
- 8db0e78 linter/plugins: Handle BOMs (#18376) (overlookmotel)
- 6ac09e2 linter/plugins: Support source text not being at start of
buffer (#18375) (overlookmotel)
- 2ef5647 ast: Add escape_raw parameter to template_element builders
(#18121) (Boshen)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- 74d0998 semantic: Update error msg for multiple `default` cases in
switch stmt (#18526) (camc314)
- c205b0d ast: Remove `ThisExpression` from `TSModuleReference` (#18489)
(Boshen)
- aed3669 parser: Parse HTML-like comments in unambiguous mode (#18442)
(Boshen)
- c4132fb parser: Validate accessor parameters in interface method
signatures (#18391) (Boshen)
- b0cd74d semantic: Allow `var` and `function` with same name in static
blocks (#18358) (Boshen)
- 6037995 semantic: Allow `new.target` in class field initializers
(#18349) (Boshen)
- 9a15c6a semantic: Do not rely on spans for node comparison in
`Function::bind` (#18296) (overlookmotel)

### ⚡ Performance

- 6b600c4 semantic: Skip parent lookup for function declarations in
`Function::bind` (#18293) (overlookmotel)
- c27ad2d semantic: Move check for function declaration out of
`is_function_part_of_if_statement` (#18292) (overlookmotel)
- 63eb89e semantic: Skip checking redeclarations for function
expressions (#18291) (overlookmotel)
- 7c12743 semantic: Skip checking unresolved exports in CommonJS files
(#18250) (overlookmotel)
- 2349031 allocator: Increase initial chunk size from 512B to 16KB
(#18234) (Boshen)

### 📚 Documentation

- 8ccd853 npm: Update package homepage URLs and add keywords (#18509)
(Boshen)
- 9b3165f napi/parser: Clarify when to use `parseAsync` vs `parseSync`
(#18486) (Boshen)
- 1b59f63 napi/parser: Correct typo in README (#18251) (overlookmotel)
- 00ff75f mangler: Fix `top_level` option in example (#18233)
(overlookmotel)
- 2ddc073 semantic: Fix typo in comment (#18238) (overlookmotel)

Co-authored-by: Boshen <[email protected]>
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