grunt-jsdoc-plugin

This plugin enables you to integrate the generation of comments based documentation into your Grunt build.

To your attention

The grunt team ask me to change the plugin name into NPM. The grunt-contrib namespace is now reserved to the tasks developped by the Grunt Team. I'll in a first time, deprecate the module in NPM and then update the name to grunt-jsdoc. You'll have to upgrade your package.json once the plugin will be removed from NPM.

Install

You need grunt >= 0.4 as well as node and npm installed and running on your system.

You also need java installed and a valid JAVA_HOME environment variable set.

Install this grunt plugin next to your project's Gruntfile.js with:

npm install grunt-jsdoc

If you use the previous version of Grunt (0.3), you can install it with:

npm install grunt-jsdoc-plugin

Documentation

Configuration

Configure the plugin to your project's Gruntfile.js.

First, add the jsdoc entry to the options of the initConfig method :

grunt.initConfig({
    jsdoc : {
        dist : {
            src: ['src/*.js', 'test/*.js'], 
            dest: 'doc'
        }
    }
});

The only supported options are

• src : an array of pattern that matches the files to extract the documentation from. You can also add the pattern to a README.md file to include it in your doc as described there.
• dest: the directory where the documentation will be generated (it will be created if needed).
• config : (optional) a path to a jsdoc config file (refer the usejsdoc documentation below for more information).

Then, load the plugin

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jsdoc');

Documentation

The current version supports only jsdoc3 documentation style. The sources configured must contains valid jsdoc3 tags. Consult the usejsdoc website for the details.

Build

To generate the documentation, you need to call the jsdoc task :

$> grunt jsdoc

or integrate it to your build sequence :

grunt.registerTask('default', ['lint', 'test', 'jsdoc']);

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome! Please check the issues.

Release History

• 0.1.0 First release, includes basic support of jsdoc3
  • 0.1.1 Fix bug #2
  • 0.1.2 Fix bug #4
  • 0.1.3 Fix bug #7, Add feature #8
  • 0.1.4 Use child_process.spawn instead of exec to run the command
• 0.2.0 Migrate to grunt 0.4
  • 0.2.1 Fix bug #10
  • 0.2.2 Fix bug #11
  • 0.2.3 Fix bug #14 and bug #15

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Bertrand Chevrier
Licensed under the MIT license.