jsdox

jsdox is a simple jsdoc 3 generator. It pulls documentation tags based on a subset of jsdoc 3 from your javascript files and generates markdown files.

Relies on the JSDoc3 parser to get the full AST including comments.

CLI Options

Usage: jsdox [options] <file | directory>

--config <file> (alias -c): Configuration JSON file.

--All (alias -A): Generates documentation for all available elements including internal methods.

--debug (alias -d): Prints debugging information to the console.

--help (alias -H): Prints help and quits.

--version (alias -v): Prints the current version and quits.

--output <dir> (alias -o): Output directory. Default value is output.

--templateDir <dir> (alias -t): Template directory to use instead of built-in ones.

--index <name> (alias -i): Generates an index with the documentation. An optional file name can be provided as an argument. Default value is index.

--index-sort <type>: Defines how to sort the index. Options are: standard (sorted by name), namespace (sorted by package/module and name), and none (not sorted). Default value is standard.

--recursive (alias -r): Generates documentation in all subdirectories of the source folder.

--respect-recursive (alias --rr): Generate subdirectories and copy the original organization of the sources.

Resources

• jsdox Documentation
• Github repo
• Changelog
• Issue tracker
• Contribute by reading the guidelines and creating pull requests!
• Run the test suite using npm test

Related projects

• grunt-jsdox A grunt task to run jsdox on your project

Author and contributors

• Pascal Belloncle (psq, Original author)
• Sam Blowes (blowsie)
• Todd Henderson (thenderson21)
• Nic Jansma (nicjansma)
• Joel Kemp (mrjoelkemp)
• Ron Korving (ronkorving)
• Mike MacMillan (mmacmillan)
• Michael Martin-Smucker (mlms13)
• Akeem McLennon (bluelaguna)
• Gabor Sar (gaborsar)
• Marc Trudel (stelcheck)
• Anselm Stordeur (anselmstordeur)
• Vladimir de Turckheim (vdeturckheim)

License

jsdox.js is freely distributable under the terms of the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Sutoiku

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