An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

Want to contribute to JSDoc? Please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

JSDoc supports Node.js 0.10 and later. You can install JSDoc in your project's node_modules folder, or you can install it globally.

To install the latest version available on NPM:

npm install jsdoc

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, simply run the jsdoc command:

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.

The JSDoc community has created numerous templates and other tools to help you generate and customize your documentation. Here are just a few:

• jaguarjs-jsdoc (example)
• DocStrap (example)
• jsdoc3Template (example)
• minami
• docdash(example)

• JSDoc Ant task
• JSDoc Grunt plugin
• JSDoc Gulp plugin

• Documentation is available at Use JSDoc.
• Contribute to the docs at jsdoc3/jsdoc3.github.com.
• Ask for help on the JSDoc Users mailing list.
• Post questions tagged jsdoc to Stack Overflow.

JSDoc 3 is copyright (c) 2011-present 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.