@barchart/documentation-generator

A command-line tool that quickly generates easy-to-maintain websites for technical documentation adhering to Barchart's guidelines for content, style, and layout.

Basic Features

• Emits a single-page web application using Docsify, with:
  • a standard cover page,
  • a standard sidebar,
  • a standard page structure, and
  • a standard stylesheet.
• Creates skeleton of pages, with:
  • placeholder pages (written using Markdown).
• Auto-generates SDK documentation from your code, as follows:
  • parses your JavaScript files,
  • extracts JSDoc comments, and
  • emits markdown pages.
• Auto-generates API documentation for your web service, as follows:
  • parses your OpenAPI file (or URL), and
  • emits markdown pages.
• Easy to deploy and maintain using GitHub Pages.

Example Sites

These Barchart products were documented using this tool; the sites are hosted on GitHub Pages:

• Barchart Market Data SDK
• Barchart Alerting Service SDK
• Barchart Watchlist Service SDK

Usage Guide

This tool was used to document itself (see the docs folder). The resulting site has been published here:

https://barchart.github.io/documentation-generator/#/

If you're pathologically incapable of reading documentation — which would be ironic, considering the purpose of this tool — just execute the following shell commands:

npm install -g @barchart/documentation-generator

mkdir my-first-documentation-site
cd my-first-documentation-site

documentation init
documentation serve

Compatibility

This tool should be compatible with Node.js version 20.

Package Managers

This tool is a public package on NPM, named @barchart/documentation-generator.

License

This software is provided under the MIT license.