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| 2 | <img src="./.github/documentation-js-logo.png" width="650" />
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| 3 | </p>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <p align="center">
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| 6 | The documentation system for modern JavaScript
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| 7 | </p>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | [](https://circleci.com/gh/documentationjs/documentation/tree/master)
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| 10 | [](http://badge.fury.io/js/documentation)
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| 11 | [](https://gitter.im/documentationjs/documentation?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
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| 12 | [](https://david-dm.org/documentationjs/documentation)
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| 13 | [](http://inch-ci.org/github/documentationjs/documentation)
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| 14 |
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| 15 | [:date: Current maintenance status](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/wiki/Current-maintenance-status)
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| 16 |
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| 17 | * Supports modern JavaScript: ES5, ES2017, JSX, Vue and [Flow](https://flow.org/) type annotations.
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| 18 | * Infers parameters, types, membership, and more. Write less documentation: let the computer write it for you.
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| 19 | * Integrates with GitHub to link directly from documentation to the code it refers to.
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| 20 | * Customizable output: HTML, JSON, Markdown, and more
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| 21 |
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| 22 | ## Examples
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| 23 |
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| 24 | - [HTML output with default template](https://documentation.js.org/html-example/)
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| 25 | - [Markdown](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/blob/master/docs/NODE_API.md)
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| 26 | - [JSON](https://documentation.js.org/html-example/index.json)
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| 27 |
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| 28 | ## Documentation
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| 29 |
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| 30 | - [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md): start here
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| 31 | - [Usage](docs/USAGE.md): how to use documentation.js
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| 32 | - [Recipes](docs/RECIPES.md): tricks for writing effective JSDoc docs
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| 33 | - [Node API](docs/NODE_API.md): documentation.js's self-generated documentation
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| 34 | - [Configuring documentation.js](docs/CONFIG.md)
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| 35 | - [FAQ](docs/FAQ.md)
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| 36 | - [Troubleshooting](docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md)
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| 37 | - [Theming](docs/THEMING.md): tips for theming documentation output in HTML
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| 38 | - [See also](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/wiki/See-also): a list of projects similar to documentation.js
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| 39 |
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| 40 | ## User Guide
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| 41 |
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| 42 | Globally install `documentation` using the [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) package manager:
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| 43 |
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| 44 | ```sh
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| 45 | $ npm install -g documentation
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| 46 | ```
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| 47 |
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| 48 | This installs a command called `documentation` in your path, that you can
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| 49 | point at [JSDoc](http://usejsdoc.org/)-annotated source code to generate
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| 50 | human-readable documentation. First, run `documentation` with the `--help`
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| 51 | option for help:
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| 52 |
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| 53 | ```sh
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| 54 | Usage:
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| 55 |
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| 56 | # generate markdown docs for index.js and files it references
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| 57 | documentation build index.js -f md
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| 58 |
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| 59 | # generate html docs for all files in src
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| 60 | documentation build src/** -f html -o docs
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| 61 |
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| 62 | # document index.js, ignoring any files it requires or imports
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| 63 | documentation build index.js -f md --shallow
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| 64 |
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| 65 | # build and serve HTML docs for app.js
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| 66 | documentation serve app.js
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| 67 |
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| 68 | # build, serve, and live-update HTML docs for app.js
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| 69 | documentation serve --watch app.js
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| 70 |
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| 71 | # validate JSDoc syntax in util.js
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| 72 | documentation lint util.js
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| 73 |
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| 74 | # update the API section of README.md with docs from index.js
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| 75 | documentation readme index.js --section=API
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| 76 |
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| 77 | # build docs for all values exported by index.js
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| 78 | documentation build --document-exported index.js
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| 79 |
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| 80 | Commands:
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| 81 | serve [input..] generate, update, and display HTML documentation
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| 82 | build [input..] build documentation
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| 83 | lint [input..] check for common style and uniformity mistakes
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| 84 | readme [input..] inject documentation into your README.md
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| 85 |
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| 86 | Options:
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| 87 | --version Show version number [boolean]
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| 88 | --help Show help [boolean]
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| 89 | ```
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| 90 |
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| 91 | ## [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
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| 92 |
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| 93 | _We have plenty of
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| 94 | [issues](https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/issues) that we'd
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| 95 | love help with._
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| 96 |
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| 97 | - Robust and complete `JSDoc` support, including typedefs.
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| 98 | - Strong support for HTML and Markdown output
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| 99 | - Documentation coverage, statistics, and validation
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| 100 |
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| 101 | documentation is an OPEN Open Source Project. This means that:
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| 102 |
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| 103 | Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given
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| 104 | commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This
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| 105 | project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.
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