js-comments

Parse JavaScript code comments and generate API documentation.

Install with npm

1$ npm i js-comments --save

Install with bower

1$ bower install js-comments --save-dev

Table of Contents

• Usage
• API
• Other awesome projects
• Running tests
• Contributing
• Author
• License

(Table of contents generated by [verb])

Usage

1var comments = require('js-comments');

Heads up!, only comments with @api public will be rendered!

API

.parse

Parse comments from the given str.

Params

• str {String}: The string to parse.
• options {Object}: Options to pass to [parse-comments]
• returns {Array}: Array of comment objects.

Example

1var fs = require('fs');
2var str = fs.readFileSync('foo.js', 'utf8');
3comments.parse(str, options);

.render

Process the given Lo-dash template string, passing a comments object as context.

Params

• comments {Array}: Array of comment objects.
• template {String}: The lo-dash template to use.
• returns {String}

Example

1comments.render(obj, options);

.renderFile

Write markdown API documentation to the given dest from the code comments in the given JavaScript src file.

Params

• src {String}: Source file path.
• dest {String}: Destination file path.
• options {Object}
• returns {String}: API documentation

Other awesome projects

• code-context: Parse a string of javascript to determine the context for functions, variables and comments based… more
• esprima-extract-comments: Extract code comments from string or from a glob of files using esprima.
• extract-comments: Extract code comments from string or from a glob of files.
• parse-code-context: Parse code context in a single line of javascript, for functions, variable declarations, methods, prototype… more

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

1$ npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2014-2015 Jon Schlinkert Originally modified from scrawl.js. Copyright (c) 2014 Caolan McMahon, contributors. Released under the MIT license.

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