gulp-comments

Exports all jsdocs-style comments from either .js or .ts files.

This is used as a workaround for when the TypeScript compiler strips jsdoc comments from its output. By extracting the comments first, you can run the output directly from .ts files into jsdocs.

Install

npm i gulp-comments --save-dev

Usage

The examples below illustrate usage in a gulp file. (Note that this plugin auto converts all file extentions to .js for the benefit of jsdocs.)

Write the comments directly to files:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var comments = require('gulp-comments');
 
gulp.task('comments', function() {
    return gulp.src('src/**/*.{ts,js}')
        .pipe(comments())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('lib/docs'));
});

Stream comments directly into gulp-jsdocs:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var comments = require('gulp-comments');
var jsdoc = require('gulp-jsdoc');
 
gulp.task('docs', function(done) {
    gulp.src('/src/**/*.{ts,js}')
        .pipe(comments())
        .pipe(jsdoc('docs.json', done));
});

Options

An optional filter parameter can be added when calling comments(). Any jsdoc block containing this string will be excluded from publishing. Can be useful for creating custom documentation builds.

//...
.pipe(comments('@internal'))
// ...

Multiple Filters

//...
.pipe(comments('@internal,@justforme'))
// ...