Description
jsdox is a simple jsdoc 3 generator. It pulls documentation tags based on a subset of jsdoc 3 from your javascript files and generates markdown files.
Relies on the JSDoc3 parser to get the full AST including comments.
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jsdox

jsdox is a simple jsdoc 3 generator. It pulls documentation tags based on a subset of jsdoc 3 from your javascript files and generates markdown files.
Relies on the JSDoc3 parser to get the full AST including comments.
CLI Options
Usage: jsdox [options] <file | directory>
--config <file>
(alias -c
): Configuration JSON file.
--All
(alias -A
): Generates documentation for all available elements including internal methods.
--debug
(alias -d
): Prints debugging information to the console.
--help
(alias -H
): Prints help and quits.
--version
(alias -v
): Prints the current version and quits.
--output <dir>
(alias -o
): Output directory. Default value is output
.
--templateDir <dir>
(alias -t
): Template directory to use instead of built-in ones.
--index <name>
(alias -i
): Generates an index with the documentation. An optional file name can be provided as an argument. Default value is index
.
--index-sort <type>
: Defines how to sort the index. Options are: standard
(sorted by name), namespace
(sorted by package/module and name), and none
(not sorted). Default value is standard
.
--recursive
(alias -r
): Generates documentation in all subdirectories of the source folder.
--respect-recursive
(alias --rr
): Generate subdirectories and copy the original organization of the sources.
Resources
- jsdox Documentation
- Github repo
- Changelog
- Issue tracker
- Contribute by reading the guidelines and creating pull requests!
- Run the test suite using
npm test
Related projects
- grunt-jsdox A grunt task to run jsdox on your project
Author and contributors
- Pascal Belloncle (psq, Original author)
- Sam Blowes (blowsie)
- Todd Henderson (thenderson21)
- Nic Jansma (nicjansma)
- Joel Kemp (mrjoelkemp)
- Ron Korving (ronkorving)
- Mike MacMillan (mmacmillan)
- Michael Martin-Smucker (mlms13)
- Akeem McLennon (bluelaguna)
- Gabor Sar (gaborsar)
- Marc Trudel (stelcheck)
- Anselm Stordeur (anselmstordeur)
- Vladimir de Turckheim (vdeturckheim)
License
jsdox.js is freely distributable under the terms of the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Sutoiku
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the jsdox README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.