typedoc VS tsdoc

Documentation generation from your compiled .d.ts with typedoc

JavaScript (TypeScript) ecosystem has various types of API docs generators. Maybe the most popular one is TypeDoc. While generating API docs itself is easy, hosting API docs is pretty hard. Publishing generated HTML to static hosting service like GitHub Pages is the method I adopted previously, but it's not an ideal solution because we can't view docs for older versions.

Firstly, install Typedoc using npm:

Background:The main bottleneck with the TypeDoc default theme especially for large projects is the verbose HTML for the left-hand navigation that linearly grows for each page based on the project size and consumes a massive amount of disk space; see this TypeDoc issue. The DMT caches the left-hand navigation HTML and dynamically creates a shared web component that is utilized across all pages only making a single copy of the navigation HTML. This reduces disk space utilization by up to 90% and also makes doc generation ~80% faster. I also include some style additions and replace the main search index generation using compressed MesssagePack instead of JSON which reduces the search index size by more than 90%.

While the Prim+RPC server is expected to be JavaScript, I'd like to support other languages through JSON Schema. I wrote a tool that translates TypeDoc comments into RPC-specific documentation. My plan is to turn this result into JSON Schema that can be served with the Prim+RPC server. This means you can get typed suggestions (for instance, from an IDE that understands JSON Schema) when writing requests in JSON files (I wrote a little about this here, still a WIP). From this, you could use your favorite HTTP client in the language of your choice, like but still benefit from having typed requests.

Docusaurus has a Typedoc plugin. Also there is a typedoc markdown plugin.

Finally, JSDoc can be used to generate documentation for your code using tools like JSDoc itself and TypeDoc. These tools generate HTML or Markdown documentation based on your JSDoc annotations, making it easier for others to understand how your code works and how to use it.

Since you're using TypeScript, use TypeDoc.

TSDoc Parser

For what it’s worth, there’s also TSDoc[1] which is TypeScript’s sorta-equivalent spiritual successor, and notably uses the same format as JSDoc. Inline type annotation is great—and I vastly prefer it to JSDoc as a type annotation mechanism—but supporting the breadth of documentation capability in an inline code position would probably be unwieldy no matter how you try to accommodate it.

1: https://tsdoc.org/

Docs? TSdoc + TypeDoc or DocFX. Of particular interest, this can be used to generate JSON schema's, useful for REST / GraphQL

Nope, they look the same, at a glance, but they're not the same. JSDoc and TSDoc are different standards, developed by different teams.

JSDoc is a terrible standard. I would rather go for TypeScript + TSDoc, then use TypDoc to generate the actual documentation based on TS typings. Alternatively, you can go for Vue Styleguidist. It's an excellent tool, but, opposite to TSDoc it's not a standard, it's just a tool.

I am trying to use the @microsoft/tsdoc package to generate documentation for a given file. I followed the demo that hey have provided https://github.com/microsoft/tsdoc/tree/main/api-demo and it works for the sample input they provided, shown below.

Maybe this is of interest? https://tsdoc.org/

Awesome, thank you! Would you be willing to support TSDoc ?