clean-jsdoc-theme

clean-jsdoc-theme

A beautifully crafted theme/template for JSDoc 3. This theme/template looks and feels like a premium theme/template. This is a fully mobile responsive theme and also highly customizable theme (for more look below in feature section).

Feel free to raise issues.

Table of content

• Demo
  • Screenshot
• Technologies Used
• Motivation
• Install
• Usage
• Nodejs Dependencies
• Example Jsdoc Config
• Features
  • theme
  • title
  • filter
  • menu
  • meta
  • search
  • overlay_scrollbar
  • create_style
  • add_scripts
  • add_style_path
  • add_script_path
  • footer
  • static_dir
  • include_css
  • include_js
  • Example
  • Cheat sheet
• Changelog
• Developing
• Contributors
• Contact
• License

Demo

Live demo (dark): https://ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/dark/index.html
Live demo (light): https://ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/light/index.html

Screenshot

Technologies Used

1. Fuse.js - Fuse.js is a powerful, lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies. Learn More
2. Overlay Scrollbars - A javascript scrollbar plugin which hides native scrollbars, provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars and keeps the native functionality and feeling. Learn More
3. Nodejs

Motivation

At the time when I was new to js documentation and jsdoc, it was hard for me to find any theme for jsdoc which is highly customizable or regularly maintaining. Also, the search used in other themes is not that advanced. To tackle these I created this project. I am actively listening to the community and try to make the changes as soon as possible.

Install

Note you must have npm installed on your machine.

On your command line type

npm install clean-jsdoc-theme

Usage

Clone repository to your designated jsdoc template directory, then

jsdoc entry-file.js -t path/to/clean-jsdoc-theme

Node.js Dependency

In your projects package.json file add a generate script

"script": {
  "generate-docs": "node_modules/.bin/jsdoc --configure .jsdoc.json --verbose"
}

In your jsdoc.json file, add a template option.

"opts": {
  "template": "node_modules/clean-jsdoc-theme"
}

Example JSDoc Config

{
    "source": {
        "include": ["lib", "package.json", "README.md"],
        "includePattern": ".js$",
        "excludePattern": "(node_modules/|docs)"
    },

    "plugins": ["plugins/markdown"],

    "opts": {
        "encoding": "utf8",
        "readme": "./README.md",
        "destination": "docs/",
        "recurse": true,
        "verbose": true,
        "template": "./node_modules/clean-jsdoc-theme",
        "theme_opts": {
            "theme": "dark"
        }
    }
}

Features

You can pass an object called theme_opts under opts for more options.

theme : "light" | "dark"

To set the overall theme of the documentation file(s). Currently there is only two variant "light" and "dark" but in future I will try to add more. Default value is "light"

title: string | HTML

To set the title to the navbar. String and HTMl is both accepted. Use HTML to overwrite the default HTML. You can do something like this

 "title": "<img src='path/to/img' class='my-custom-class'/>"

You can use static_dir to copy all you static files to output dir and use that path in place of path/to/img. For more details look static_dir section.

filter: boolean

This is deprecated. This is used to turn the navbar image to white for better contrast.

menu: Array<{}>

To render extra link(s) in navbar. It accepts an array of objects example:

"menu" : [
  {
    "title": "Website",
    "link": "https://ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/dark/",
    "target": "_blank",
    "class": "some-class",
    "id": "some-id"
  }
]

Required properties

name	type
title	string
link	string

Optional Properties

name	type
target	string
class	string
id	string

meta: Array<{}>

A list of meta tag attributes to add to the head of each page.

"meta" : [
  {
    "name": "author",
    "content": "Ankit Kumar"
  },
  {
    "name": "description",
    "content": "Best Clean and minimal JSDoc 3 Template/Theme"
  }
]

Properties

Any valid combination of HTML metadata attributes.

search: {}

To render search. Default value:

"search": {
  "shouldSort": true,
  "threshold": 0.4,
  "location": 0,
  "distance": 100,
  "maxPatternLength": 32,
  "minMatchCharLength": 1,
}

Properties

Any valid fuse.js properties

overlay_scrollbar: {}

Includes the OverlayScrollbars plugin. Simply passing an empty object will activate this feature.

"overlay_scrollbar": {
  "option": {}
}

Properties

Any valid overlay scrollbar properties

create_style: string

To create custom style rules. Example:

"create_style": "nav{background: yellow} footer {background: green}"

Here the nav and footer style rule is to attached to the HTML's style tag.

add_scripts: string

To create custom scripts. Example:

"create_style": "function foo(){console.log('foo')} function bar() {console.log('bar')}"

Here the script is to attached to the HTML's script tag.

add_style_path: Array<{}>

Use this option to add third party css library.

Note: You have to pass an array of object, and object keys are actually the attributes which you want in you link tag.

Example:

"add_style_path": [
  {
    "href": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.0-beta1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
    "integrity": "sha384-giJF6kkoqNQ00vy+HMDP7azOuL0xtbfIcaT9wjKHr8RbDVddVHyTfAAsrekwKmP1",
    "crossorigin": "anonymous"
  }
],

Properties

Any valid style tag attributes

add_script_path: Array<{}>

Use this option to add third party js library.

Note: You have to pass an array of object, and object keys are actually the attributes which you want in you script tag.

Example:

"add_script_path": [
  {
    "href": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js",
    "integrity": "sha256-QWo7LDvxbWT2tbbQ97B53yJnYU3WhH/C8ycbRAkjPDc=",
    "crossorigin": "anonymous"
  }
],

Properties

Any valid script tag attributes

footer: string | HTML

Thing which you want to render as the footer. You can either pass a string or HTML. Use HTML to overwrite the default HTML.

"footer": "This is footer"

static_dir: Array<string>

To include static files. Example:

"static_dir": ["./static"],

This will copy the static folder to the output dir.

Note: If the directory doesn't exists then you may get an error. Also directory is relative to your jsdoc config file.

This will not flatten then directory it keep the directory structure as it is.

include_css: Array<string>

To include css files. Example:

"include_css": ["./static/index.css", "./src/docs/index.css"]

Note: You are not required to manually copy file to output dir

It will include the css files to the output dir and also attache a link tag to the html pointing to the included css file.

include_js: Array<string>

To include js files. Example:

"include_js": ["./static/index.js", "./src/docs/index.js"]

Note: You are not required to manually copy file to output dir

It will include the js files to the output dir and also attache a link tag to the html pointing to the included js file.

Example theme_opts

"opts":{
  "theme_opts":{
    "theme": "dark",
    "title": "clean-jsdoc-theme",
    "filter": false,
    "menu": [
      {
        "title": "Website",
        "link": "https://ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/index.html",
        "target": "_blank",
        "class": "some-class",
        "id": "some-id"
      },
      {
        "title": "Github",
        "link": "https://github.com/ankitskvmdam/clean-jsdoc-theme/",
        "target": "_blank",
        "class": "some-class",
        "id": "some-id"
      }
    ],

    "meta": [
        {
          "name": "author",
          "content": "Ankit Kumar"
        },
        {
          "name": "description",
          "content": "Best Clean and minimal JSDoc 3 Template/Theme"
        }
      ],
    "search": {},
    "create_style": "nav{background: yellow}",
    "add_style_path": [
      {
        "href": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.0-beta1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
        "integrity": "sha384-giJF6kkoqNQ00vy+HMDP7azOuL0xtbfIcaT9wjKHr8RbDVddVHyTfAAsrekwKmP1",
        "crossorigin": "anonymous"
      }
    ],
    "add_scripts": "function foo(){console.log('foo')}",
    "add_script_path": [
      {
        "src": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js",
        "integrity": "sha256-QWo7LDvxbWT2tbbQ97B53yJnYU3WhH/C8ycbRAkjPDc=",
        "crossorigin": "anonymous"
      }
    ],

    "footer": "This is footer",
    "static_dir": ["./static"],
    "include_css": ["./static/index.css", "./src/docs/index.css"],
    "include_js": ["./static/main.js", "./third-party/test/index.js"],

    "overlay_scrollbar": {
        "options": {
        }
    }
  }
}

Cheat sheet

name	default	use case	expected value(s)
theme	"light"	To set the theme variant	"light" or "dark"
title	null	To set the title	HTML or string
filter	false	Turn the navbar image to white	boolean
menu	null	To render extra link in navbar	Array of Object(s)
meta	null	Meta tag attributes	Array of Object(s)
search	{}	To render search or not	Fuse.js options
create_style	null	To create custom style rules	string
add_style_path	null	To add external css libraries/files	Array of Object(s)
add_scripts	null	To create custom script	string
add_script_path	null	To add external js libraries/files	Array of Object(s)
footer	null	To render footer	HTML or string
static_dir	null	To include static dir	Array of string
include_css	null	To include css files	Array of string
include_js	null	To include js files	string
overlay_scrollbar	null	To use overlay scrollbar	Overlay Scrollbar options

Changelog

Changelog is moved to https://github.com/ankitskvmdam/clean-jsdoc-theme/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Developing

Before starting please go through our contributing guide.

git clone https://github.com/ankitskvmdam/clean-jsdoc-theme.git
cd clean-jsdoc-theme
npm install
npm install jsdoc --no-save
npm run test

npm run test will generate files in output folder.

Contributors

Contact

If you like my work, then give me a star. This will act as a driving force to add new feature more frequently.
Mail me at: [e-mail]

License

Licensed under the MIT license.