denoland / docland

The documentation generation website for Deno

docland

A Deno CLI/Deploy server application which generates documentation for arbitrary JavaScript and TypeScript modules.

Overview

When a documentation page is requested, the following occurs at a high level:

• The request URL is processed by the oak router, matching the URL to the route patterns.
• When it is matched to a documentation page, the middleware checks to see if the documentation JSON structure is in memory.
• If the module isn't in memory, the middleware will attempt to generate the documentation JSON structure.
• It calls the doc() function from deno_doc with a custom in memory caching loader function.
• doc() uses deno_graph and swc to generate the documentation JSON structure.
• Once the structure is generated, it uses Nano JSX and twind to server side render a JSX/TSX structure which generates itself based off the JSON documentation structure.
• This is then passed back the the requestor.
• If the URL matched is a "card" image, this is server side rendered as a JSX/TSX SVG which is then rendered as a PNG using resvg_wasm.

Starting

To run the server locally:

> deno task dev

The server will start listening on port 8080, which will be logged to the console when ready to accept requests.

If you are deploying on Deploy, the main.ts should be the module you deploy.

Building

In order to speed up displaying the built-in documentation, there is a build script. This will fetch all the releases from GitHub for the Deno CLI and rebuild the latest release, plus build any missing versions.

To execute the build script:

> deno task build

Contributing

We appreciate your help!

To contribute, please read our contributing instructions.

This repository includes .devcontainer metadata which will allow a development container to be built which has all the development pre-requisites available to make contribution easier.

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Copyright 2021 the Deno Authors. All rights reserved. MIT License.