build-docs
Library to extract inline comments out of your services
Installation
With npm:
npm install build-docs --save
With yarn:
yarn add build-docs
Usage
const buildDocs = require('build-docs');
const source = `
/*
* Creates a user in the database
*
* This creates a user in the database. Here you can add a
* full description.
*
* @param {string} name Name of the user
* @secret apiKey This is a secret value that will be required
* @throws {ValidationError} Must provide all required fields
* @returns {Object} The created user object
*/`;
console.log(require('util').inspect(buildDocs(source, 'createUser'), { depth: null }));
const doc = require('build-docs')(source, name)
source
is a string of source code with comments to parsename
is the name of the action
The object returned is an object with the following properties:
name
- the name of the action - docsdescription
- the description of the action - docsfullDescription
- a longer description of the action which can be multiline - docsparams
- an array of the @param
comment types - docssecrets
- an array of the @secret
comment types - docsthrows
- an array of the @throws
comment types - docserrors
- an object of all the possible errors from this action - docsreturns
- an object describing the return type - docs
const docs = require('build-docs').parseDirectory(directory)
There is also a function to make build-docs look inside a directory and
parse docs out of all JS files in that directory. This uses the filename
(minus the extension) for the name of the action.
This returns an array of docs in the same format as described above.
name
The name is taken directly from the name you pass in
description
Description is written as the first line of text in your block comment
fullDescription
Full description is written as 2nd first line of text in your block comment
@param
We support the same syntax as jsdoc.
We parse your format and output a valid JSON Schema for each @param.
Primitive types:
@secret
If your service requires secret values from your users, this is how you request and access them.
@throws
We support the same syntax as jsdoc.
errors
For the following docs:
This will return an errors object like the following:
{
ErrorType: function () {}
}
The function is a compiled lodash template: https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.4#template
@returns
We support the same syntax as jsdoc.
Credits
Dom Harrington