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# jsdoc-to-markdown
Generates markdown API documentation from [jsdoc](http://usejsdoc.org) annotated source code. Useful for injecting API docs into project README files.

## Synopsis

1\. Document your code using valid jsdoc comments.

```js
/**
 * A quite wonderful function.
 * @param {object} - privacy gown
 * @param {object} - security
 * @returns {survival}
 */
function protection (cloak, dagger) {}
```

2\. Run a command.

```sh
$ jsdoc2md example.js
```

3\. Get markdown output.

```markdown
## protection(cloak, dagger) ⇒ <code>survival</code>
A quite wonderful function.

**Kind**: global function

| Param  | Type                | Description  |
| ------ | ------------------- | ------------ |
| cloak  | <code>object</code> | privacy gown |
| dagger | <code>object</code> | security     |

```

## Install

```
$ npm install --save-dev jsdoc-to-markdown
```

## See also

* [API documentation](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown/blob/master/docs/API.md)
* The [wiki](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown/wiki) for example output, FAQs, tutorials, plugins, use with gulp/grunt etc.

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