vuepress-jsdoc

This npm package is a command line script, which scans your JavaScript, Vue or Typescript source code and generates markdown files for vuepress with the help of jsdoc-to-markdown and vue-docgen-cli.

How to

yarn global add vuepress-jsdoc
npm i vuepress-jsdoc -g

Example:

# search code in src and move it to code (./documentation/code) in your vuepress folder (./documentation)
vuepress-jsdoc --source ./src --dist ./documentation --folder code --title API --exclude="**/*/*.test.js"

You can also use npx vuepress-jsdoc, if you want.

Plugin (Dev-Mode) alpha

You can use vuepress-jsdoc also as plugin. This plugin watches you generated files.

// ./documentation/.vuepress/config.js
plugins: [
  [
    require('vuepress-jsdoc').default,
    {
      folder: 'code',
      source: './dist',
      dist: './documentation',
      title: 'API',
      partials: ['./example/partials/*.hbs'],
      readme: './README.md',
      exclude: '**/*.d.ts,**/interfaces.*,**/constants.*,**/cmds.*'
    }
  ]
];

Watch-Mode alpha

If you do not want to runvuepress-jsdoc again and again and again. You can simply pass --watch or -w.

Command-Options

Use these options after vuepress-jsdoc.

Name	Alias	Default	Description
--source	-s	./src	Source folder with .js or .ts files
--dist	-d	./documentation	Destination folder
--folder	-f	./code	Folder inside destination folder. Gets overwritten everytime
--title	-t	API	Title of your documentation
--help	-h		Show help
--version	-v		Show current version
--readme	-r		Path to custom readme file
--exclude	-e		Pattern to exclude files/folders (Comma seperated) - *.test.js,exclude.js more information
--rmPattern	-rm		Pattern when removing files. You can ex- and include files. (glob pattern)
--partials	-p		jsdoc2markdown partial templates (overwrites default ones)
--jsDocConfigPath	-c		Path to JsDoc Config (experimental)
--watch	-w		Watch changes and update markdown files

config.js

Inside your generated folder, you can find a config.js. This file includes a complete filetree and an vuepress sidebar tree.

How to configure vuepress

Vuepress is a static site generator by Evan You. You can add all generated documentation files to your existing vuepress project or create a new one.

# First install vuepress
yarn global add vuepress

# Run the CLI
vuepress-jsdoc

# Run vuepress dev server
vuepress dev ./documentation

# Run vuepress build, if you want to ship it
vuepress build ./documentation

Access it via: http://localhost:8080/code/

Now you need the sidebar. Create a .vuepress folder inside the documentation folder and add the following config.js.

config.js:

// auto generated sidebar
const { sidebarTree } = require('../code/config');

module.exports = {
  dest: 'dist',
  locales: {
    '/': {
      title: 'vuepress-jsdoc',
      description: 'Generate jsdoc markdown files for vuepress'
    }
  },
  themeConfig: {
    editLinks: true,
    sidebarDepth: 4,
    docsDir: 'code',
    locales: {
      '/': {
        nav: [
          {
            text: 'Home',
            link: '/'
          }
        ],
        // Add the generated sidebar
        sidebar: Object.assign({}, sidebarTree('Mainpage title'))
      }
    }
  }
};

Custom readme

You can easily add a custom path to your readme by using the --readme ./path/to/file.md parameter. If you move a README.md inside your source folder, it should resolve it automatically. You can set the title by passing it to the sidebarTree('Mainpage title') function inside your ./.vuepress/config.js.

@vuepress comment block

You can add custom meta data to your pages by using the @vuepress block:

/*
 * @vuepress
 * ---
 * title: Your custom title
 * headline: You custom headline
 * ---
 */

Use headline to add a custom h1 title.

More information

Typescript

To use typescript, you have to install these dev-dependencies:

yarn add -D typescript jsdoc-babel @babel/cli @babel/core @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-typescript jsdoc-to-markdown

Next, you have to add a jsdoc.json to your project with some settings and add it with the -c parameter. You can find a full working example with all settings inside the ./example folder. The example shows also how to use babel-plugins.

Example

The ./example folder includes a full working vuepress-jsdoc example.

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the CLI
vuepress-jsdoc

# Generate docs
npm run docs

# Run dev server
npm run dev

# Generate dist folder
npm run build

Contribute

PRs are always welcome (: