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grunt-jsdoc
This plugin enables you to integrate the generation of comments based documentation into your Grunt build.
NPM package name change
To comply with convention, the package's name was changed from grunt-contrib-jsdoc
to grunt-jsdoc
. You'll have to upgrade your package.json
if you're still using grunt-contrib-jsdoc
.
Install
You need grunt >= 0.4 as well as node and npm installed and running on your system.
You also need java
installed and available in your PATH.
Install this grunt plugin next to your project's Gruntfile.js with:
npm install grunt-jsdoc --save-dev
jsdoc3 3.3.0
The jsdoc3 team is working on the 3.3.0 version that works on node.js and doesn't need Rhino (Java) anymore. This version is not yet stable (flagged as alpha). If you want this plugin to use this version, you can install the beta tag of this grunt plugin (branch 0.6.x).
npm install grunt-jsdoc@beta --save-dev
Feedback on the beta branch is more than welcomed!
Grunt <= 0.3.x
If you use the previous version of Grunt (0.3), you can install it with:
npm install grunt-jsdoc-plugin
Upstream issues
For documentation related issues, please ask the jsdoc3 people. To be sure the issue comes from the Grunt plugin, you can check by running directly jsdoc3 command. Run the task with the --debug
flag and the command to run is outputed.
Documentation
Configuration
Configure the plugin to your project's Gruntfile.js.
First, add the jsdoc
entry to the options of the initConfig
method :
grunt.initConfig({
jsdoc : {
dist : {
src: ['src/*.js', 'test/*.js'],
options: {
destination: 'doc'
}
}
}
});
The supported options are
src
: (required) an array of pattern that matches the files to extract the documentation from. You can also add the pattern to a README.md file to include it in your doc as described there.dest
: (alias tooptions.destination
) set up the destination folder, the grunt wayjsdoc
: (optional) the path to the jsdoc bin (needed only for some border line cases)options
: options used by jsdocdestination
: (required) the folder where the doc is generatedconfigure
: (optional) path to a config filetemplate
: (optional) path or name to a different templateprivate
: (optional) include the private functions to the doc (true
by default).- ... refer the usejsdocCli documentation for all the available options.
Then, load the plugin
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jsdoc');
Code Documentation
The current version supports only jsdoc3 documentation style. The sources configured must contains valid jsdoc3 tags. Consult the usejsdoc website for the details.
Templates
The plugin includes docstrap, as well as the default template provided by jsdoc3. To use docstrap, you can use the following configuration:
jsdoc : {
dist : {
src: ['src/**/*.js', 'README.md'],
options: {
destination: 'doc',
template : "node_modules/grunt-jsdoc/node_modules/ink-docstrap/template",
configure : "node_modules/grunt-jsdoc/node_modules/ink-docstrap/template/jsdoc.conf.json"
}
}
}
Build
To generate the documentation, you need to call the jsdoc
task :
$> grunt jsdoc
or integrate it to your build sequence :
grunt.registerTask('default', ['lint', 'test', 'jsdoc']);
Contributing
Any contribution is welcome! Please check the issues. Do some unit/integration tests as far as possible.
Release History
- 0.5.0 Move to NPM dependencies instead of git, jsdoc 3.2.2 (Fix #65)
- 0.4.0 Update to jsdoc 3.2.0 stable, Fix #37, add integration tests
- 0.3.0 Partial rewrite, Fix #29 and minor typos fixs
- 0.2.0 Migrate to grunt 0.4
- 0.1.0 First release, includes basic support of jsdoc3
- 0.1.1 Fix #2
- 0.1.2 Fix #4
- 0.1.3 Fix #7, Add feature #8
- 0.1.4 Use
child_process.spawn
instead ofexec
to run the command
License
Copyright (c) 2012 Bertrand Chevrier
Licensed under the MIT license.