jsdoc-advanced-types-plugin

This is a plugin for jsdoc to support advanced vscode/typescript type definitions which are not supported currently.

The problem :

I use vscode for development, and currently vscode & jsdoc have some conflicts in their syntax for type definitions. This forces me to have a choice, either use jsdoc definitions and have html docs, or use vscode type definitions for vscode autocompleted.

What this plugin does

This plugin taps into the jsdoc's document generation, and rewrites comment blocks to write it in a jsdoc type definitions, it does not change your code, only the compiled documents. So, you can enjoy both benefits.

Supported type definitions

• arrow function definitions

@param {(property : string) => string[]} callback This is a callback

will be converted to at the time of generation to

@param {function} callback signature `(property : string) => string[]` callback This is a callback

• object type definitions

@type {{
	a : { b : "asdf" },
	b : string => string
}} 

will be converted to jsdoc compliant format

@type {object}
@property {object} a
@property {string} a.b
@property {function} b signature `string => string`

• it supports following tags @param,@type,@property

Notes

• use with jsdoc-plugin-typescript to support import statements

other notes :

• rashly implemented, probably full of bugs!
• not very efficient
• BUT, it works for my current work!