documentation

documentation

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

ES5 and ES6 support of JavaScript, with support for other transpilers a possibility

Using espree, we have support for a wide range of ES6 features.

Support for C++

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

Support for following dependency trees

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.

GitHub Integration

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

Gulp integration

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

Documentation

• Getting_Started: start here

• Usage: how to use documentation.js

• Recipes: tricks for writing effective JSDoc docs

• Node API: documentation.js's self-generated documentation

• FAQ

• Theming HTML: 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 -h option for help:

$ documentation -h
Usage: documentation <command> [options]

Options:
  -f, --format   output format, of [json, md, html]            [default: "json"]
  --lint         check output for common style and uniformity mistakes          
  -t, --theme    specify a theme: this must be a valid theme module             
  -p, --private  generate documentation tagged as private                       
  --name         project name. by default, inferred from package.json           
  --version      project version. by default, inferred from package.json        
  --shallow      shallow mode turns off dependency resolution, only processing
                 the specified files (or the main script specified in
                 package.json)                                  [default: false]
  --polyglot     polyglot mode turns off dependency resolution and enables
                 multi-language support. use this to document c++               
  -g, --github   infer links to github in documentation                         
  -o, --output   output location. omit for stdout, otherwise is a filename for
                 single-file outputs and a directory name for multi-file
                 outputs like html                           [default: "stdout"]
  -c, --config   configuration file. an array defining explicit sort order      
  -h, --help     Show help                                                      

Examples:
  documentation foo.js    parse documentation in a given file

Contributing

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.