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Generating Documentation for TypeScript Projects

What's this blog post about?

This article discusses using TypeScript to generate documentation from source code alone. It explains how TypeScript can help developers catch errors early on and provides a comparison between JSDoc and TypeScript annotations. The author also shares their experience with using TypeDoc, a tool for generating documentation from TypeScript projects, and demonstrates how it can be used to create reference material that is always in sync with the codebase. Additionally, the article suggests that TypeScript can do more than just API references and provides an example of linking source code within getting-started documentation. The author plans to open-source their tools for generating documentation and theme in the near future.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Nov. 22, 2016

Author(s)
John Fawcett

Word count
1537

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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