doccy

Doccy

$ npm install -g doccy

Automatic generation of documentation READMEs.

(Still very much under development).

Example

You can see a full example of generated documentation in the docs folder.

Given a test file:

/*
 * @object thing
 * @description a module of things
 */
var thing = {
    /*
     * @name foo
     * @description a cool function
     * @param x does something
     * @returns a number
     */
    foo: function(x) {
        return 42;
    }
}

Running:

$ doccy test.js -o docs

Will create docs/test.md that looks like so:

## `thing`

_a module of things_

### `foo`

_a cool function_

Parameters:

- `x`: does something

**Returns:** a number

If you'd like a full example, the Doccy documentation is generated from Doccy itself.

CLI Globbing

Rather than specify each file individually, the more common use of Doccy's small CLI tool is to pass in a glob:

$ doccy "src/*.js"

Will create a Markdown documentation file for each JS file within the src directory. By default doccy will put these into a docs folder, that it will create if needed, but you can specify the output directory with the -o flag:

$ doccy "src/*.js" -o documentation

Supported Keys

Order is not important, and things within [] are optional.

• @name function_name
• @description function_description
• @param name [{Type}] description
• @returns description
• @object name - denotes a "containing" object (see above example, which is much clearer)

TODO

• allow options for changing Markdown formatting
• add more keys
• make a Grunt plugin
• document programmatical usage

Contributors

Thanks to the following people for their help :)

• Jonathan Fielding.

Contributing

Please follow the existing style of code - recommend using EditorConfig to help you out with this.

To generate documentation, run npm run doccy.

Changelog

0.0.5

• added type support to @param

0.0.4

• added CLI tool for globbing support

0.0.3

• added object key for denoting a "containing" object

0.0.2

• added description key

0.0.1

• initial release