ESDoc VS react-docgen

Compare ESDoc vs react-docgen and see what are their differences.

ESDoc

ESDoc - Good Documentation for JavaScript (by esdoc)

react-docgen

A CLI and library to extract information from React component files for documentation generation purposes. (by reactjs)
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ESDoc react-docgen
2 3
2,745 3,548
-0.1% 0.8%
0.0 9.7
over 1 year ago 2 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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ESDoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of ESDoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.
  • How to properly document a React/Redux application?
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 18 Apr 2022
    In this post, the tool react-docgen is presented, and I have stumble upon esdoc as well. Whereas esdoc does automatic generation of documentation, react-docgen extracts the information of the React components and puts it into a JSON file.

react-docgen

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-docgen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
  • React how to get which props does a children need
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 5 Jul 2023
    It’s possible, assuming you’ve typed your props using TS (maybe proptypes would work too, not sure) you can then use ReactDocGen (https://react-docgen.dev/) to have the types output in a way you can read them in code.
  • How to properly document a React/Redux application?
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 18 Apr 2022
    In this post, the tool react-docgen is presented, and I have stumble upon esdoc as well. Whereas esdoc does automatic generation of documentation, react-docgen extracts the information of the React components and puts it into a JSON file.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ESDoc and react-docgen you can also consider the following projects:

JSDoc - An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

documentation.js - :book: documentation for modern JavaScript

YUIDoc - YUI Javascript Documentation Tool

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

docco - Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

jsduck - Simple JavaScript Duckumentation generator.

dox - JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc

apiDoc - RESTful web API Documentation Generator.

styledocco - Automatically generate a style guide from your stylesheets.

jsdox - simplified jsdoc 3

sphinx - The Sphinx documentation generator

Gitdown - GitHub markdown preprocessor.