JSDoc

An API documentation generator for JavaScript. (by jsdoc)

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Posts with mentions or reviews of JSDoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-19.
  • Documenting Web Components With Storybook
    7 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2025
    One of the best tools available in Web Component development is the Custom Elements Manifest. It's a JSON representation of all your available components, covering all the attributes, methods, slots and events they support, powered by your JSDoc comments and TypeScript types. You can customize the manifest generation through plugins to support custom JSDoc comments, allowing you to power more pieces of your documentation through code comments; for example, you could set up a comment format to indicate if your component is experimental or stable or provide a way to add a link to your Figma files.
  • Just Say No to JavaScript
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2024
    I've seen several ways of annotating Javascript that IDEs seem to understand. They usually involve using comments before fields, classes, or functions.

    The most compliant one seems to be using [JSDoc](https://jsdoc.app/). JSDoc is mostly intended for generating documentation. However, the Typescript compiler can validate types (and can even interoperate with Typescript definitions), if you configure it as such.

    In scenarios where you HAVE to write raw Javascript but still would like to do some type validation, this is probably the best solution.

    It looks a bit like this:

        /**
  • TypeScript (and JSDoc) vs JavaScript
    2 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2024
    If you choose to use JSDoc instead of TypeScript, this only con that TypeScript has is gone, but a new one appears: JSDoc doesnt work very well with more complex types if you dont use classes to represent them.
  • How to document your JavaScript package
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 May 2024
    Thanks to JSDoc it's easy to write documentation that is coupled with your code and can be consumed by users in a variety of formats. When combined with a modern publishing flow like JSR, you can easily create comprehensive documentation for your package that not only fits within your workflow, but also integrates directly in the tools your users consume your package with. This blog post aims to cover best practices when writing JSDoc-style comments to get your users up and running as quickly as possible:
  • Deep Dive: Google Apps Script - Testing APIs and Automating Sheets
    1 project | dev.to | 15 May 2024
    Note: For simplicity, I will omit the JavaScript documentation, but for a production grade code you may want to add the documentation (see jsdoc.app website for more).
  • Figma's Journey to TypeScript
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2024
    You may like JSDoc[1] if you just want some type-safety from the IDE without the compilation overhead.

    It’s done wonders when I’ve had to wrangle poorly commented legacy JavaScript codebases where most of the overhead is tracing what type the input parameters are.

    Personally, I’m impartial to TypeScript or JSDoc at this point. But I’d rather have either over plain JavaScript.

    [1] https://jsdoc.app/

  • Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024
    I wholeheartedly agree. At most, I introduce JSDoc[1] to newer developers as standardising how parameters and whatnot are commented at least gets you better documentation and _some_ safety without adding any TS knowledge overhead.

    [1] https://jsdoc.app/

  • Learn how to document JavaScript/TypeScript code using JSDoc & Typedoc
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    This is where JSDoc comes to save the day.
  • Add typing to your Javascript code (without Typescript, kinda) ✍🏼
    1 project | dev.to | 21 Feb 2024
    The best way to do this, of course, is with JSDoc. But something I always found awkward about jsdoc is defining the object types in the same file. So, after a lot of reading, I found a way to combine JSDoc with declaration type files from Typescript. Let me give you an example:
  • What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024
    There is a lot of specific symbols presented on the JSDOC specification that can be found here: https://jsdoc.app
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jsdoc/jsdoc is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

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