Jsdoc Javascript Api Documentation Generator

---
name: "JSDoc JavaScript API Documentation Generator"
slug: "jsdoc-javascript-api-documentation-generator"
description: "JSDoc is the standard API documentation generator for JavaScript. It parses specially-formatted comments in JavaScript source code to produce HTML documentation pages. With 15,000+ GitHub stars and millions of npm downloads, it is the most widely adopted JavaScript documentation tool and the foundation of the JSDoc comment standard used across the entire JS ecosystem."
github_stars: 15426
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc"
category: "Library & API Reference"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "jsdoc/jsdoc"
  github_stars: 15426
  npm_package: "jsdoc"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 2663272
---

# JSDoc JavaScript API Documentation Generator

JSDoc is the standard API documentation generator for JavaScript. It parses specially-formatted comments in JavaScript source code to produce HTML documentation pages. With 15,000+ GitHub stars and millions of npm downloads, it is the most widely adopted JavaScript documentation tool and the foundation of the JSDoc comment standard used across the entire JS ecosystem.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm install -g jsdoc
- npm install --save-dev jsdoc

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- JSDoc supports stable versions of Node.js 8.15.0 and later. You can install
- To install the latest version on npm globally (might require sudo;

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- JSDoc globally or in your project's node_modules folder.
- [learn how to fix this](https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally)):
- To install the latest version on npm locally and save it in your package's

- Source: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/jsdoc-javascript-api-documentation-generator/)