JavaScript documentation generators
Nov 11, 2020 • ☕️ 1 min read
The inner workings are pretty simple. You just need to add comments to your methods in a given way and run following doc generators. They will scan the code to generate an HTML documentation website for you.
JSDoc
An API documentation generator for JavaScript, support many templates and output formats, can work as standalone tool or integrated to other build tools.
ESDoc
An API documentation generator for JavaScript, inspired by JSDoc, supports ES2015 and later, generates detailed document, integrates the test code and more.
Natural Docs
A general documentation generator for 21+ programming languages including JavaScript, designed to be very natural and readable.
Docco
Docco is a quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
Documentation.js
A documentation system for modern JavaScript; supports ES5, ES2017, JSX, Vue and Flow type annotations; infers parameters, types, membership, and more.
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