The sequelize documentation is written in a combination of markdown (articles and example based documentation) and JSDoc (API reference generated from source code comments).
All documentation is located in the docs
folder.
The documentation is rendered using mkdocs and hosted at Read the docs. Mkdocs generates static HTML from markdown files. The files in articles
and docs
should be edited directly, and the files in api
are generated from source code comments (more on that later).
All pages in the documentation are defined in the pages
section of mkdocs.yml
. Each page is given as a separate line:
- ['index.md', 'Home', 'Welcome']
The first array element is the path of the markdown file, relative to the docs
dir. The second element is the section the page should be placed in, and the third is the name of the page.
To view the docs locally use mkdocs serve
. This will start a local server at port 8000. The documentation is automatically regenerated when you edit an .md
file. However, you'll have to restart the server if you add new pages in the configuration file.
Write markdown, and have fun :)
The API documentation is generated from source code comments by a custom script, which outputs markdown into the docs/api
folder. To regenerate the documentation, run:
$ npm run docs
By default all generation will be regenerated, but you can run the generation for a single file by specifying --file
.