react-docgen
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A library to extract information from React components for documentation generation.
The prop-types package is used for runtime type checking for React props and similar objects. While it doesn't generate documentation, it serves a related purpose in defining and documenting the types of props a component can receive.
Storybook is an open-source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, and Angular. It provides a sandbox to build UIs in isolation so you can develop hard-to-reach states and edge cases. It includes features for documenting components, which can be seen as an alternative to react-docgen's documentation generation capabilities.
TypeDoc is a documentation generator for TypeScript projects. It operates under similar principles to react-docgen but is focused on TypeScript and can generate documentation from TypeScript annotations and comments.
JSDoc is a markup language used to annotate JavaScript source code files. Using comments containing JSDoc, you can add documentation describing the application programming interface (API) of your JavaScript code. Unlike react-docgen, which is React-specific, JSDoc is applicable to any JavaScript code.
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A library to extract information from React components for documentation generation.
The npm package react-docgen receives a total of 3,469,193 weekly downloads. As such, react-docgen popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-docgen demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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