typedoc-plugin-replace-in-comments

typedoc-plugin-replace-in-comments

This is a plugin for TypeDoc that replaces text in comments. You can specify matching patterns and the text they should be replaced with.

This can be useful for:

• Creating links from ticket IDs (eg: replace "GH-12345" with a link to https://github.com/your-name/the-repo/issues/12345)
• Creating links from author names (eg: link "Your Name" to your GitHub or corporate profile page)
• Replacing internal URLs with external ones
• Replacing custom placeholders with anything you like (eg: images)
• Remove URLs or other text from comments
• etc.

Installation

This module can be installed using npm:

$ npm install typedoc-plugin-replace-in-comments --save-dev

TypeDoc automatically detects plugins installed via npm. After installation TypeDoc can be used normally and you can configure this plugin as described below.

Configuration

This plugin adds a new option to TypeDoc: replace-in-comments-config

The option defines the regular expression matching patterns and the texts they should be replaced with. You can specify the config using one of the following methods:

• In your tsconfig.json file (within the typedocOptions object) OR
• In your typedoc.json file

Example of a typedoc.json configuration:

{
    "out": "docs",
    "replace-in-comments-config": [
        {
            "pattern": "(GH-(\\d+))",
            "replace": "[$1](https://github.com/your-name/the-repo/issues/$2)"
        },
        {
            "pattern": "The King Himself",
            "flags": "gi",
            "replace": "[The King Himself](https://github.com/the-king-himself)"
        }
    ]
}

The option must define an array of objects with the following properties:

Property	Description
pattern	The regular expression pattern used to find the text that should be replaced.
flags	Flags for the regular expression pattern. (optional - defaults to "g")
replace	The text that should be used as a replacement.

The properties are passed to a call of String.replace as follows:

comment = comment.replace(new Regex(PATTERN, FLAGS), REPLACE);

Bugs

Please report bugs here. Thanks for your contribution!

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