JSDOC FOR NODEJS

This version of JsDoc have been modified to run on NodeJs instead of Rhino. The reason is simple: performance. NodeJs uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine with far better performance than Mozilla's Rhino.

Users have reported that it is possible to compile documentation in about 10 seconds running NodeJs instead of 250 seconds running Rhino. See test_result.txt for more details.

Utilizing NodeJs brings another advantage: there is no need for Java nor the Java runtime. Which means less to download and less to distribute. It also decreases the startup time of JsDoc which means that the documentation for small project can now be generated much faster than before.

This is not an official JsDoc release. For the official version of JsDoc that runs ontop of Rhino, please visit http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/

DESCRIPTION

This is the source code for JsDoc Toolkit, an automatic documentation generation tool for JavaScript. It is written in JavaScript and is run from a command line (or terminal) using NodeJS.

Using this tool you can automatically turn JavaDoc-like comments in your JavaScript source code into published output files, such as HTML or XML.

For more information, to report a bug, or to browse the technical documentation for this tool please visit the official JsDoc Toolkit project homepage at http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/

For the most up-to-date documentation on JsDoc Toolkit see the official wiki at http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/w/list

REQUIREMENTS

Running JsDoc Toolkit requires you to have NodeJS installed on your computer. For more information see http://nodejs.org/

• NodeJS http://nodejs.org/

INSTALLATION

Use NPM to download and install the page

$ [sudo] npm install -g jsdoc2

USAGE

On a computer running Windows a valid command line to run JsDoc Toolkit might look like this:

$ jsdoc2 -a -t=templates/jsdoc mycode.js

If you have manually downloaded and installed JsDoc instead of using NPM, the same command might look like this:

$ node app/run.js -a -t=templates/jsdoc mycode.js

The above assumes your current working directory contains the "templates" subdirectories from the standard JsDoc Toolkit distribution and that the relative path to the code you wish to document is "mycode.js".

The output documentation files will be saved to a new directory named "out" (by default) in the current directory, or if you specify a -d=somewhere_else option, to the somewhere_else directory.

For help (usage notes) enter this on the command line:

$ jsdoc2 --help

More information about the various command line options used by JsDoc Toolkit are available on the project wiki.

TESTING

To run the suite of unit tests included with JsDoc Toolkit enter this on the command line:

$ jsdoc2 -T

To see a dump of the internal data structure that JsDoc Toolkit has built from your source files use this command:

$ jsdoc2 mycode.js -Z

LICENSE

JSDoc.pm

This project is based on the JSDoc.pm tool, created by Michael Mathews and Gabriel Reid. More information on JsDoc.pm can be found on the JSDoc.pm homepage: http://jsdoc.sourceforge.net/

Complete documentation on JsDoc Toolkit can be found on the project wiki at http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/w/list

JsDoc Toolkit

All code specific to JsDoc Toolkit are free, open source and licensed for use under the X11/MIT License.

JsDoc Toolkit is Copyright (c)2009 Michael Mathews [email protected]

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms below.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice must be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.