electron-api-docs

electron-api-docs

Electron's API documentation in a structured JSON format.

Installation

npm install electron-api-docs --save

Or take it for a spin in your Node.js REPL:

npm i -g trymodule && trymodule electron-api-docs=apis

Note: This package is not semantically versioned. It is published in step with Electron. When you install electron-api-docs@1.4.1, you're getting the API docs from Electron v1.4.1.

Usage

const apis = require('electron-api-docs')

When you require it, you get an array of API objects

apis.length
// => 33

The array has a key for each API name, for convenient access:

apis.BrowserWindow
apis.BrowserWindow.staticMethods.getAllWindows.description
apis.WebContents.instanceMethods.savePage.parameters.saveType.possibleValues
apis.app.events.quit

All of the arrays have named keys, but they're still actually arrays, so functional methods like find, map, filter, and every can be used:

apis.find(api => api.name === 'BrowserWindow')

apis.filter(api => api.type === 'Class')

apis.filter(api => api.type === 'Module')

apis.map(api => api.name)

// All arrays have named keys, not just the top-level array!
apis.BrowserWindow.instanceMethods.map(method => method.name)

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

• keyed-array: Recursively add named keys to arrays of objects

Dev Dependencies

• chai: BDD/TDD assertion library for node.js and the browser. Test framework agnostic.
• gh-latest-release: Get the latest published full release for the Github repository
• json: a 'json' command for massaging and processing JSON on the command line
• mocha: simple, flexible, fun test framework
• standard: JavaScript Standard Style
• standard-markdown: Test your Markdown files for Standard JavaScript Style™

License

MIT