Install the documentation binary with npm.
$ npm install -g documentationdocumentation then installs a command called documentation. Run it with
--help or --help <command> to get help.
$ documentation --help build
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--help Show help [boolean]
--theme, -t specify a theme: this must be a valid theme module
--project-name project name. by default, inferred from
package.json
--project-version project version. by default, inferred from
package.json
--project-description project description. by default, inferred from
package.json
--project-homepage project homepage. by default, inferred from
package.json
--favicon favicon used in html
--watch, -w watch input files and rebuild documentation when
they change [boolean]
--markdown-toc include a table of contents in markdown output
[boolean] [default: true]
--markdown-toc-max-depth specifies the max depth of the table of contents in markdown output
[number] [default: 6]
--shallow shallow mode turns off dependency resolution, only
processing the specified files (or the main script
specified in package.json)
[boolean] [default: false]
--config, -c configuration file. an array defining explicit sort
order [string]
--no-package, --np dont find and use package.json for project-
configuration option defaults
[boolean] [default: false]
--external a string / glob match pattern that defines which
external modules will be whitelisted and included
in the generated documentation. [default: null]
--require-extension, --re additional extensions to include in require() and
import's search algorithm.For instance, adding .es5
would allow require("adder") to find "adder.es5"
--parse-extension, --pe additional extensions to parse as source code.
--private, -p generate documentation tagged as private
[boolean] [default: false]
--access, -a Include only comments with a given access level,
out of private, protected, public, undefined. By
default, public, protected, and undefined access
levels are included
[array] [choices: "public", "private", "protected", "undefined"]
--github, -g infer links to github in documentation [boolean]
--infer-private Infer private access based on the name. This is a
regular expression that is used to match the name
[string]
--document-exported Generate documentation for all exported bindings
and members even if there is no JSDoc for them
[boolean] [default: false]
--sort-order The order to sort the documentation
[choices: "source", "alpha"] [default: "source"]
--output, -o output location. omit for stdout, otherwise is a
filename for single-file outputs and a directory
name for multi-file outputs like html
[default: "stdout"]
--format, -f [choices: "json", "md", "remark", "html"] [default: "json"]