inferModule.js JSDoc Plugin

No more @module tags in your JSDoc comments. Just define module names using regular expressions in your configuration file and generate your JSDoc documentation.

Using JSDoc's -c option, pass the JSDoc confiuration file that has the inferModule.js plugin enabled. In the configuration file, using the key inferModule, specify a schema array of regexp replacement objects defining what you would like module names changed from and to (note that the regexp is a string in the JSON object, so some escaping of characters may be in order). You may optionally set file paths that the inferModule plugin should exclude by including an exclude key. The glob patterns that can be handled are described here.

Here is an example basic conf.json to enable the plugin:

{
    "plugins": ["path/to/inferModule"],
    "inferModule": {
        "exclude": [
            "lib/foo/b.js",
            "..."
        ],
        "schema": [
            { "from": "^lib\\/foo\\/(.*)\\.js$", "to": "bar/$1" },
            { "from": "...", "to": "..."}
        ]
    }
}

If no regexp is matched, then the module defaults to the file path (without the file extension). Additionally, if the file comment already has a @module tag, the module name in the tag takes precedence, even if the file is matched (the @module tag can be located anywhere in the comment). If the inferModule.schema key is missing from conf.json, the plugin does not alter JSDoc's behavior. Each file must contain a toplevel comment in the simplest form.

For example, to have JSDoc interpret lib/foo/a.js as the module baz/a as specified in the example conf.json above, use the following command from jsdoc_plugin/: ./node_modules/.bin/jsdoc lib/* -c path/to/conf.json. The generated documentation based on inferModule schema array objects is in out/.

You may have jsdoc installed differently. In that case, you will need to alter the command and paths according to your installation.

Testing

This plugin uses mocha and chai to handle testing. To run the testing suite, from inferModule-jsdoc-plugin/ run npm install, then npm test.