TypeDoc is a documentation generator for TypeScript projects. It reads your TypeScript source code and its comments and produces an HTML documentation website. It is capable of creating readable and user-friendly documentation for TypeScript projects, which can be very helpful for both maintaining internal code and for sharing code with external users.

What are typedoc's main functionalities?

Generating Documentation

This command generates documentation for the TypeScript source files located in the 'src' directory and outputs the result to the 'docs' directory.

typedoc --out docs src

Customizing the Theme

This command generates documentation with a minimal theme, which is one of the built-in themes provided by TypeDoc.

typedoc --out docs src --theme minimal

Excluding Private Members

This command generates documentation while excluding private members from the output, making the documentation cleaner if private members are not intended to be part of the public API.

typedoc --out docs src --excludePrivate

Including Declaration Files

This command includes type declaration files (d.ts files) in the documentation generation process, which can be useful for documenting the types that are part of the project's external API.

typedoc --out docs src --includeDeclarations

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TypeDoc

Documentation generator for TypeScript projects.

Installation

TypeDoc runs on Node.js and is available as an NPM package. You can install TypeDoc in your project's directory as usual:

$ npm install typedoc --save-dev

Like the TypeScript compiler, TypeDoc comes with a binary that can be called from anywhere if you install TypeDoc as a global module. The name of the executable is typedoc.

$ npm install typedoc --global
$ typedoc

Preview

If you want to know what a documentation created with TypeDoc looks like, head over to the homepage of the project. We've setup examples demonstrating the two default themes shipped with the package:

http://typedoc.io/themes/default
http://typedoc.io/themes/minimal

The default themes can be found here: https://github.com/TypeStrong/typedoc-default-themes

Usage

Shell

TypeDoc accepts most of the command line arguments that the TypeScript compiler accepts. One major difference is the fact that one may pass an entire directory instead of individual files to the documentation generator. So in order to create a documentation for an entire project you simply type:

$ typedoc --out path/to/documentation/ path/to/typescript/project/

Important note

Starting with version 0.2, TypeDoc no longer can predict whether files should be treated as modules or whether the project should be compiled into one big namespace. You must specify the mode argument in order to change the behaviour of TypeDoc.

Arguments

--out <path/to/documentation/>
Specifies the location the documentation should be written to.
--mode <file|modules>
Specifies the output mode the project is used to be compiled with.
--json <path/to/output.json>
Specifies the location and file name a json file describing the project is written to. When specified no documentation will be generated.

Source file handling

--exclude <pattern>
Exclude files by the given pattern when a path is provided as source
--includeDeclarations
Turn on parsing of .d.ts declaration files.
--externalPattern <pattern>
Define a pattern for files that should be considered being external.
--excludeExternals
Prevent externally resolved TypeScript files from being documented.
--excludePrivate
Prevent private members from being included in the generated documentation.

TypeScript compiler

--module <commonjs, amd, system or umd>
Specify module code generation: "commonjs", "amd", "system" or "umd".
--target <ES3, ES5, or ES6>
Specify ECMAScript target version: "ES3" (default), "ES5" or "ES6"

Theming

--theme <default|minimal|path/to/theme>
Specify the path to the theme that should be used.
--name <Documentation title>
Set the name of the project that will be used in the header of the template.
--readme <path/to/readme|none>
Path to the readme file that should be displayed on the index page. Pass none to disable the index page and start the documentation on the globals page.
--hideGenerator
Do not print the TypeDoc link at the end of the page.
--gaID
Set the Google Analytics tracking ID and activate tracking code.
--gaSite <site>
Set the site name for Google Analytics. Defaults to auto
--entryPoint <fully.qualified.name>
Specifies the fully qualified name of the root symbol. Defaults to global namespace.

Content

--includes <path/to/includes>
Specifies the location to look for included documents. One may use [[include:FILENAME]] in comments to include documents from this location.
--media <path/to/media>
Specifies the location with media files that should be copied to the output directory. In order to create a link to media files use the pattern media://FILENAME in comments.

Miscellaneous

--version
Display the version number of TypeDoc.
--help
Display a simple cheat sheet.

Webpack

There is a plugin available to run TypeDoc with Webpack created by Microsoft. You can find it on NPM:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/typedoc-webpack-plugin

Gulp

There is a plugin available to run TypeDoc with Gulp created by Rogier Schouten. You can find it on NPM:
https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-typedoc/

Grunt

There is a plugin available to run TypeDoc with Grunt created by Bart van der Schoor. You can find it on NPM:
https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-typedoc

Plugins

External Module Name - Set the name of TypeDoc external modules

Advanced guides and docs

Visit our homepage for advanced guides and an extensive API documentation:
http://typedoc.org

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and appreciated. You can find TypeDoc on GitHub, feel free to start an issue or create a pull requests:
https://github.com/TypeStrong/typedoc

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