Simply preview your jsdoc generation on your browser.

Features

Each time a *.js or *.md file is saved, jsdoc is launched on its parent directory and the preview page is automatically reloaded (or opened if not exist).

You can open a new page in your browser with the command Preview JSDoc : Open browser.

No need to have jsdoc installed on your machine.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• previewjsdoc.autoOpenBrowser: enable/disable the auto opening of the browser at the first save.
• previewjsdoc.confFile: the JSON configuration file passed to jsdoc -c confFile.json. More details on http://usejsdoc.org/about-configuring-jsdoc.html
• previewjsdoc.tutorials: set a list paths which may contain jsdoc tutorials. A glob pattern or relative path are possible to use. This list will be merged into a single tutorial folder and will be passed to jsdoc -t. For example

    "previewjsdoc.tutorials" : ["**/tutorials/*"] // copy all folders containing tutorials as child folder.

• previewjsdoc.output: set the output where the extension generates the conf.json, the root directory to store jsdoc generated files and the merged tutorials folder

Use a custom templates

If you want to use a different template than the default one. You can set in your configuration file the location of this template.

For example, if you want to use the template fooDoc.

1. Get the absolute path where you installed this template.
2. Update the configuration file like below

{
    "opts": {
        ...
        "template": "<root path>/node_modules/foodoc/template"
    }
}

3. Open the preview jsdoc browser or save a file to see the new template

Release Notes

Look at the Changelog

Others

This extension has been inspired from Instant Markdown extension.