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The documentation system for modern JavaScript
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[:date: Current maintenance status](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/wiki/Current-maintenance-status)
- Supports modern JavaScript: ES5, ES2017, JSX, Vue and [Flow](https://flow.org/) type annotations.
- Infers parameters, types, membership, and more. Write less documentation: let the computer write it for you.
- Integrates with GitHub to link directly from documentation to the code it refers to.
- Customizable output: HTML, JSON, Markdown, and more
## Examples
- [HTML output with default template](https://documentation.js.org/html-example/)
- [Markdown](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/blob/master/docs/NODE_API.md)
- [JSON](https://documentation.js.org/html-example/index.json)
## Documentation
- [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md): start here
- [Usage](docs/USAGE.md): how to use documentation.js
- [Recipes](docs/RECIPES.md): tricks for writing effective JSDoc docs
- [Node API](docs/NODE_API.md): documentation.js's self-generated documentation
- [Configuring documentation.js](docs/CONFIG.md)
- [FAQ](docs/FAQ.md)
- [Troubleshooting](docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md)
- [Theming](docs/THEMING.md): tips for theming documentation output in HTML
- [See also](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/wiki/See-also): a list of projects similar to documentation.js
## User Guide
Globally install `documentation` using the [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) package manager:
```sh
$ npm install -g documentation
```
This installs a command called `documentation` in your path, that you can
point at [JSDoc](https://jsdoc.app/about-getting-started.html)-annotated source code to generate
human-readable documentation. First, run `documentation` with the `--help`
option for help:
```sh
Usage:
# generate markdown docs for index.js and files it references
documentation build index.js -f md
# generate html docs for all files in src, and include links to source files in github
documentation build src/** -f html --github -o docs
# document index.js, ignoring any files it requires or imports
documentation build index.js -f md --shallow
# validate JSDoc syntax in util.js
documentation lint util.js
# update the API section of README.md with docs from index.js
documentation readme index.js --section=API
# build docs for all values exported by index.js
documentation build --document-exported index.js
# build html docs for a TypeScript project
documentation build index.ts --parse-extension ts -f html -o docs
Commands:
build [input..] build documentation
lint [input..] check for common style and uniformity mistakes
readme [input..] inject documentation into your README.md
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--help Show help [boolean]
```
## [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
_We have plenty of
[issues](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/issues) that we'd
love help with._
- Robust and complete `JSDoc` support, including typedefs.
- Strong support for HTML and Markdown output
- Documentation coverage, statistics, and validation
documentation is an OPEN Open Source Project. This means that:
Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given
commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This
project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.