Module Docs

an NPM package that creates a local server so you can browse README files of dependecies included in your applications node_modules directory

Example screenshot

Installation

yarn add module-docs

Setup

To add module-docs to your application, you can:

Create an npm script in your applications package.json file that can run it.

...
"scripts": {
  "start:docs": "module-docs start"
}
...

Or run it manually from the root directory of your application:

npx run module-docs start

Config

Create a module-docs.config.js file in the root of your application.

Adding favorites

You can add favorites to the sidebar of the module-docs application like so:

// module-docs.config.js
module.exports = {
  favorites: ["react", "react-apollo", "react-apollo-hooks"]
}
 

Which will result in the sidebar looking like this: