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Description

A documentation generation system that's beautiful by default, flexible across formats and styles, and powerful enough to support JSDoc's advanced syntax.

Using babel, we have support for a wide range of ES6 & ES7 features, as well as Flow type annotations.

By statically analyzing your JavaScript code, documentation.js can write many parts of your documentation for you. It can infer parameter names and types, class membership, return values from Flow types, and lots more.

You can use the --polyglot mode of documentationjs to document native node.js modules in JSDoc within the C++ code that implements the feature.

Using module-deps, documentation can crawl require() graphs - pointing it to your app's main file will find all referenced files and include all of their documentation.

The --github option automatically permalinks documentation to the exact sections of code it refers to in a GitHub repository.

The gulp-documentation project lets you run documentation as a Gulp build task.

Code Quality Rank: L4
Monthly Downloads: 0
Programming language: JavaScript
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Tags: Documentation     Parser     Formatter     Jsdoc     Website     Jsdoc3    
Latest version: v14.0.0

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README

The documentation system for modern JavaScript

Circle CI npm version Gitter David Inline docs

:date: Current maintenance status

  • Supports modern JavaScript: ES5, ES2017, JSX, Vue and Flow type annotations.
  • Infers parameters, types, membership, and more. Write less documentation: let the computer write it for you.
  • Integrates with GitHub to link directly from documentation to the code it refers to.
  • Customizable output: HTML, JSON, Markdown, and more

Examples

Documentation

  • [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md): start here
  • [Usage](docs/USAGE.md): how to use documentation.js
  • [Recipes](docs/RECIPES.md): tricks for writing effective JSDoc docs
  • [Node API](docs/NODE_API.md): documentation.js's self-generated documentation
  • [Configuring documentation.js](docs/CONFIG.md)
  • [FAQ](docs/FAQ.md)
  • [Troubleshooting](docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md)
  • [Theming](docs/THEMING.md): tips for theming documentation output in HTML
  • See also: a list of projects similar to documentation.js

User Guide

Globally install documentation using the npm package manager:

$ npm install -g documentation

This installs a command called documentation in your path, that you can point at JSDoc-annotated source code to generate human-readable documentation. First, run documentation with the --help option for help:

Usage:

# generate markdown docs for index.js and files it references
documentation build index.js -f md

# generate html docs for all files in src, and include links to source files in github
documentation build src/** -f html --github -o docs

# document index.js, ignoring any files it requires or imports
documentation build index.js -f md --shallow

# validate JSDoc syntax in util.js
documentation lint util.js

# update the API section of README.md with docs from index.js
documentation readme index.js --section=API

# build docs for all values exported by index.js
documentation build --document-exported index.js

# build html docs for a TypeScript project
documentation build index.ts --parse-extension ts -f html -o docs

Commands:
  build [input..]   build documentation
  lint [input..]    check for common style and uniformity mistakes
  readme [input..]  inject documentation into your README.md

Options:
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]

[Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)

We have plenty of issues that we'd love help with.

  • Robust and complete JSDoc support, including typedefs.
  • Strong support for HTML and Markdown output
  • Documentation coverage, statistics, and validation

documentation is an OPEN Open Source Project. This means that:

Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.