Module without exports and with "@module" not included

[letmaik]

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@module exports side effects

Expected Behavior

If a module has a doc string at the top with @module it should be included even if it doesn't have any exports. This allows to document modules that are only imported for their side effects, like polyfills.

Actual Behavior

The module is omitted in the docs.

Steps to reproduce the bug

/**
 * This module has side-effects only.
 * 
 * @module
 */

(<any>globalThis).sideEffect = 42;

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.20.33
• TypeScript version: 4.2.3

[Gerrit0]

There's a couple things here.

1. A request to revert Modules with only non-exported constructs should not be exported either #1126, which with 0.20's behavior, I'm happy to do.
2. A bug, where TypeDoc doesn't pick up module comments from global files