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JSDoc 3
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[![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jsdoc3/jsdoc.svg)](http://travis-ci.org/jsdoc3/jsdoc)
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An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
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Want to contribute to JSDoc? Please read `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
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Installation and Usage
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You can run JSDoc on either Node.js or Mozilla Rhino.
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### Node.js
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Native support for Node.js is available in JSDoc 3.3.0 and later. JSDoc
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supports Node.js 0.10 and later.
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#### Installing JSDoc for Node.js
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You can install JSDoc in your project's `node_modules` folder, or you can
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install it globally.
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To install the latest alpha version:
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npm install jsdoc@"<=3.3.0"
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To install the latest development version:
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npm install git+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc.git
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**Note**: If you install JSDoc globally, do not use `sudo npm install`. This may
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prevent you from running JSDoc as a normal user. If you cannot install global
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packages without `sudo`, please
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[fix your npm directory permissions](http://howtonode.org/introduction-to-npm).
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#### Running JSDoc with Node.js
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If you installed JSDoc locally, the JSDoc command-line tool is available in
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`./node_modules/.bin`. To generate documentation for the file
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`yourJavaScriptFile.js`:
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./node_modules/.bin/jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
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Or if you installed JSDoc globally, simply run the `jsdoc` command:
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jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
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By default, the generated documentation is saved in a directory named `out`. You
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can use the `--destination` (`-d`) option to specify another directory.
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Run `jsdoc --help` for a complete list of command-line options.
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### Mozilla Rhino
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All versions of JSDoc 3 run on a customized version of Mozilla Rhino, which
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requires Java. You can run JSDoc 3 on Java 1.6 and later.
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#### Installing JSDoc for Mozilla Rhino
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To install JSDoc, download a .zip file for the
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[latest development version](https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/archive/master.zip)
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or a [previous release](https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/tags).
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You can also use git to clone the
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[JSDoc repository](https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc):
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git clone git+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc.git
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The JSDoc repository includes a
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[customized version of Mozilla Rhino](https://github.com/jsdoc3/rhino). Make
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sure your Java classpath does not include any other versions of Rhino. (On OS X,
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you may need to remove the file `~/Library/Java/Extensions/js.jar`.)
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**Note**: In JSDoc 3.3.0 and later, if you need to run JSDoc on Mozilla Rhino,
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do not install JSDoc with npm. Use one of the methods described above.
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#### Running JSDoc with Mozilla Rhino
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On OS X, Linux, and other POSIX systems, to generate documentation for the file
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`yourJavaScriptFile.js`:
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./jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
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Or on Windows:
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jsdoc yourJavaScriptFile.js
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By default, the generated documentation is saved in a directory named `out`. You
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can use the `--destination` (`-d`) option to specify another directory.
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Run `jsdoc --help` for a complete list of command-line options.
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Templates and Build Tools
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The JSDoc community has created numerous templates and other tools to help you
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generate and customize your documentation. Here are just a few:
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### Templates
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+ [jaguarjs-jsdoc](https://github.com/davidshimjs/jaguarjs-jsdoc)
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([example](http://davidshimjs.github.io/jaguarjs/doc))
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+ [DocStrap](https://github.com/terryweiss/docstrap)
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+ [jsdoc3Template](https://github.com/DBCDK/jsdoc3Template)
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([example](https://github.com/danyg/jsdoc3Template/wiki#wiki-screenshots))
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### Build Tools
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+ [JSDoc Grunt plugin](https://github.com/krampstudio/grunt-jsdoc)
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+ [JSDoc ant task](https://github.com/jannon/jsdoc3-ant-task)
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For More Information
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--------------------
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+ Documentation is available at [Use JSDoc](http://usejsdoc.org).
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+ Contribute to the docs at [jsdoc3/jsdoc3.github.com](https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc3.github.com).
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+ ~~Post questions to the [JSDoc Users mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/jsdoc-users).~~
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(temporarily unavailable)
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+ Post questions tagged `jsdoc` to [Stack
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Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jsdoc).
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License
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-------
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JSDoc 3 is copyright (c) 2011-2014 Michael Mathews <micmath@gmail.com> and the
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[contributors to JSDoc](https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/graphs/contributors).
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JSDoc 3 is free software, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See
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the file `LICENSE.md` in this distribution for more details.
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