use workaround for jsdocs parsing issues

[mj3cheun]

[lmeyerov]

lgtm -- changelog and start the release flow? I forgot if we got you into the npm org + release flow yet

fwiw... should CI have prevented the prev versions from going through? or it appears as just undocumented bits, not actual errors

[mj3cheun]

changelog updated. will do release for 5.1.1 under a 5.1.1 branch. you added me to the npm org and walked me through the release flow, ill let you know if i come up with any problems.

CI would not have caught this, no errors were thrown. there were some undocumented classes but that wasn't the problem, its just that because jsdocs was parsing the comments wrong there is documentation that its skipping over and therefore not generating.