An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Want to contribute to JSDoc? Please read CONTRIBUTING.md.
You can run JSDoc on either Node.js or Mozilla Rhino.
Native support for Node.js is available in JSDoc 3.3.0 and later.
You can install JSDoc in your project's node_modules folder, or you can
install it globally.
To install the latest alpha version:
npm install jsdoc@"<=3.3.0"
To install the latest development version:
npm install git+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc.git
If you installed JSDoc locally, the JSDoc command-line tool is available in
./node_modules/.bin. To generate documentation for the file
yourJavaScriptFile.js:
./node_modules/bin/jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
Or if you installed JSDoc globally:
jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
By default, the generated documentation is saved in a directory named out. You
can use the --destination (-d) option to specify another directory.
Run jsdoc --help for a complete list of command-line options.
All versions of JSDoc 3 run on a customized version of Mozilla Rhino, which requires Java. You can run JSDoc 3 on Java 1.6 and later.
To install JSDoc, download a .zip file for the latest development version or a previous release.
You can also use git to clone the JSDoc repository:
git clone git+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc.git
The JSDoc repository includes a
customized version of Mozilla Rhino. Make
sure your Java classpath does not include any other versions of Rhino. (On OS X,
you may need to remove the file ~/Library/Java/Extensions/js.jar.)
On OS X, Linux, and other POSIX systems, to generate documentation for the file
yourJavaScriptFile.js:
./jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
Or on Windows:
jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
By default, the generated documentation is saved in a directory named out. You
can use the --destination (-d) option to specify another directory.
Run jsdoc --help for a complete list of command-line options.
Project Documentation: http://usejsdoc.org/
Project Documentation Source: https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc3.github.com
JSDoc User's Group: http://groups.google.com/group/jsdoc-users
JSDoc 3 Ant Task: https://github.com/jannon/jsdoc3-ant-task
Project Announcements: http://twitter.com/jsdoc3
JSDoc 3 is copyright (c) 2011-2013 Michael Mathews [email protected] and the contributors to JSDoc.
JSDoc 3 is free software, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See
the file LICENSE.md in this distribution for more details.