DTS ApiGen

A .d.ts and documentation generator for TypeScript and JavaScript projects.

⚠️ Please note that DTS ApiGen is still in beta and not production ready.

Why

TypeScript is a powerful tool, but at the moment of writing, it prevents declaration files generation for JavaScript files.

This tool aims to offer a set of utils to generate .d.ts files starting from JS modules using JSDoc (checkout the supported tags list) to fill typings informations. It also provides a method to generate a single bundled declaration, useful for JS libraries and Api documentation.

Usage

Via CLI

DTS ApiGen is available as a CLI tool installing the module via NPM or Yarn:

$ npm install -g dts-apigen
# OR 
$ yarn global add dts-apigen

$ dts-apigen --help

Usage: dts-apigen [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version                 output the version number
  -h, --help                    output usage information

Commands:
  generate [options] <file>     Generate declaration files
  bundle [options] <file>       Bundle all declaration files into a single .d.ts file
  documentate [options] <file>  Generate an API documentation markdown file

The generate command creates declaration files along your source files, unless a declarationDir has been specified in the tsconfig.json or the --out option has been used:

$ dts-apigen generate src/index.js --out types/

You can also build a single .d.ts file running:

$ dts-apigen bundle src/index.js --out typings.d.ts

The documentate command generates a bundle of the project on the fly and passes the typescript SourceFile result to a template function (by default it uses the built-in markdown generator):

$ dts-apign documentate src/index.js --out docs/API.md

Via Node

Install the package as Node dependency to use it programmatically:

$ npm install dts-apigen -D
# OR 
$ yarn add dts-apigen -D

DTS ApiGen extends the TypeScript createProgram method and accepts all its options, as well as other custom transformers.

const { generate, bundle } = require('dts-apigen');
const { writeFileSync } = require('fs');
const { createPrinter } = require('typescript');
 
const result = generate(['src/index.js'], {
    declarationDir: 'types',
});
 
console.log(result.diagnostic);
 
// generate the bundle file
const sourceFile = bundle('src/index.js');
const code = createPrinter().printFile(resultFile);
writeFileSync('bundle.d.ts', code);

You can find the API documentation (generated with dts-apigen, of course) in the API.md file.

Supported tags

• @abstract
• @access
• @async
• @const
• @enum
• @param
• @private
• @property (synonyms: @prop)
• @protected
• @readonly
• @return
• @this
• @typedef

Partially supported tags

• @kind
• @namespace (only for declarations)

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License

DTS ApiGen is released under the MIT license.