vuepress-jsdoc

This npm package is a command line script, which scans your JavaScript, Vue or Typescript source code and generates markdown files for vuepress with the help of jsdoc-to-markdown and vue-docgen-cli.

How to

yarn global add vuepress-jsdoc
npm i vuepress-jsdoc -g

Example:

# search code in src and move it to code (./documentation/code) in your vuepress folder (./documentation)
vuepress-jsdoc --source ./src --dist ./documentation --folder code --title API --exclude=**/*/*.test.js

Commands

If no command passed it will run generate as default

| Name | Alias | Description | | -------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | generate | gen, g | search code in src and move it to code (./documentation/code) in your vuepress folder (./documentation) |

Options

| Name | Alias | Default | Description | | ----------------- | ----- | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | --source | -s | ./src | Source folder with .js or .ts files | | --dist | -d | ./documentation | Destination folder | | --folder | -f | ./code | Folder inside destination folder. Gets overwritten everytime | | --title | -t | API | Title of your documentation | | --help | -h | | Show help | | --version | -v | | Show current version | | --readme | -r | | Path to custom readme file | | --exclude | -e | | Pattern to exclude files/folders (Comma seperated) - *.test.js,exclude.js more information | | --rmPattern | -rm | | Pattern when removing files. You can ex- and include files. (glob pattern) | | --partials | -p | | jsdoc2markdown partial templates (overwrites default ones) | | --jsDocConfigPath | -c | | Path to JsDoc Config (experimental) |

config.js

Inside your generated folder, you can find a config.js. This file includes a complete filetree and an vuepress sidebar tree.

How to configure vuepress

Vuepress is a static site generator by Evan You. You can add all generated documentation files to your existing vuepress project or create a new one.

# First install vuepress
yarn global add vuepress

# Run the CLI
vuepress-jsdoc

# Run vuepress dev server
vuepress dev ./documentation

# Run vuepress build, if you want to ship it
vuepress build ./documentation

Access it via: http://localhost:8080/code/

Now you need the sidebar. Create a .vuepress folder inside the documentation folder and add the following config.js.

config.js:

// auto generated sidebar
const { sidebarTree } = require('../code/config');

module.exports = {
  dest: 'dist',
  locales: {
    '/': {
      title: 'vuepress-jsdoc',
      description: 'Generate jsdoc markdown files for vuepress'
    }
  },
  themeConfig: {
    editLinks: true,
    sidebarDepth: 4,
    docsDir: 'code',
    locales: {
      '/': {
        nav: [
          {
            text: 'Home',
            link: '/'
          }
        ],
        // Add the generated sidebar
        sidebar: Object.assign({}, sidebarTree('Mainpage title'))
      }
    }
  }
};

Custom readme

You can easily add a custom path to your readme by using the --readme ./path/to/file.md parameter. If you move a README.md inside your source folder, it should resolve it automatically. You can set the title by passing it to the sidebarTree('Mainpage title') function inside your ./.vuepress/config.js.

Once the README.md has been added, it is no longer overwritten! If you want it to be overwritten, set --rmPattern=./documentation/code/README.md.

@vuepress comment block

You can add custom meta data to your pages by using the @vuepress block:

/*
 * @vuepress
 * ---
 * title: Your custom title
 * headline: You custom headline
 * ---
 */

Use headline to add a custom h1 title.

More information

Typescript

To use typescript, you have to install these dev-dependencies:

yarn add -D typescript jsdoc-babel @babel/cli @babel/core @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-typescript jsdoc-to-markdown

Next, you have to add a jsdoc.json to your project with some settings and add it with the -c parameter. You can find a full working example with all settings inside the ./example folder. The example shows also how to use babel-plugins.

Example

The ./example folder includes a full working vuepress-jsdoc example.

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the CLI
vuepress-jsdoc

# Generate docs
npm run docs

# Run dev server
npm run dev

# Generate dist folder
npm run build

Contribute

PRs are always welcome (: