are-docs-informative

Are Docs Informative

Checks whether a documentation description introduces any new information. ℹ️

Usage

See this in action in jsdoc/informative-docs!

npm i are-docs-informative

import { areDocsInformative } from "are-docs-informative";

areDocsInformative("The user id.", "userId"); // false
areDocsInformative("Retrieved user id.", "userId"); // true

Options

The areDocsInformative function can receive a third, optional object parameter. It can contain any of the following properties.

aliases

The aliases option allows indicating words as synonyms (aliases) of each other.

For example, with { aliases: { emoji: ["smiley", "winkey"] } }, the following comment would be considered uninformative:

/** Default smiley/winkey. */
export const defaultSmiley = "🙂";

The default aliases option is:

{
	"a": ["an", "our"]
}

uselessWords

Words that are ignored when searching for one that adds meaning.

For example, with { uselessWords: ["our"] }, the following comment would be considered uninformative:

/** Our text. */
export const text = ":)";

The default uselessWords option is:

["a", "an", "i", "in", "of", "s", "the"]

Development

See .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, then .github/DEVELOPMENT.md. Thanks! ℹ

Contributors

Josh Goldberg 🔧 📖 🚇 💻 🖋 🤔 🚧 📆

💝 This package was templated with create-typescript-app using the Bingo engine.

Changelog

0.1.0 (2025-04-18)

Bug Fixes

• support Node >=14, not >=18 (3a68d29)

Features

• add 're' as useless word (#723) (d6bd6fe), closes #20