Create basic and fully customisable documentation for your API REFERENCES from markdown source to static HTML files.

Command line usage

npx @bentaro/apidoc --name='"API REFERENCES"' --version="2.1" --out="build" --src="./examples/apidoc_v2.1" --separator="-" --homeTitle="My home page"

Command line parameters

Name	Required	Default	Description
name	no	Documentation	Name of your documentation
version	no	1.0	Version of your documentation
out	no	build	Output folder
src	yes	n/a	Source folder
separator	no	>	Breadcrumbs & title separator
homeTitle	no	Home	Title of the home page (src/index.html)

Javascript usage

const Apidoc = require("@bentaro/apidoc");

let api = new Apidoc(name, version, src, out, separator, homeTitle);
api.generate(); // generate is an async function

How it work

Apidoc convert a specific folder tree of .md files into a basic and fully customisable website. Another "static" folder is needed to let you load your own style

Example tree:

- demo_doc/
  - markdown/
    - Users/
      - Authentication/
        - createToken.md - Markdown displayed Users/createToken page
        - main.md - Markdown displayed in the Users/Authentication/ page
      - main.md - Markdown displayed in the Users/ page
    - main.md - Markdown displayed in the Home page
    - How-to_guides.md - Markdown displayed in the How-to guides page
    - Overview.md - Markdown displayed in the Overview page
    - Quickstart.md - Markdown displayed in the Quickstart page
  - static/
    - css/
      - navbar.css - CSS code of the navbar
      - page.css - CSS code of the page content (where ur markdown is displayed)
      - sidebar.css - CSS code of the sidebar
      - style.css - Global CSS code
    - favicon.png
    - logo.png

Become:

Note: You can find the complete source directory example here

Note: You can change all UI style as you want, just update .css files (color, font-size etc...)

Important: In this example we only have the "Users" resource with the "Authentication" category and the "createToken" request. But you can create multiple resources. And each resource can have multiple categories. And a category can have multiple requests.

Markdown shortcuts

Name	Display
{{{url}}}	Path to the root folder. Use case: href="{{{url}}}/index.html" is redirecting to the home page
{{{title}}}	Current page title
{{{request($method, $url)}}}	Shortcut to the html <div class="requestContainer"><div class="${$method.toLowerCase()}">${method.toUpperCase()}</div><div class="requestUrl">${url}</div> </div>
{{{status($method, $url)}}}	Shortcut to the html <span class="${code >= 400 ? "error" : "success"}" style="font-weight: bold">${code}</span>

How to create my own markdown shortcuts

In your source folder create a folder called "shortcuts". Then create a JS file in the folder "shortcuts" for each of your shortcut. In our example it look like:

- demo_doc/
  - shortcuts/
    - multiply.js

multiply.js content:

module.exports = function (...args){
  return args.reduce((acc, val) => acc * val);
}

Usage in markdown:

### My amazing markdown file
4 * 2 * 5 = {{{multiply(4,2,5)}}}

How to customize the navbar links

Navbar links are customisable. In our example we have "How-to guides", "Overview" and "Quickstart". But you can remove a .md file to remove his button in the navbar or rename it to change his name. Do what you want, the only rule is in the filename the character underscore (_) is replaced by a space in the navbar