Lightweight jQuery Based API Documentation Generator - jqGuide

jqGuide is a tiny and easy-to-use jQuery plugin that helps you generate a beautiful one page API / guide / function documentation from JSON objects.

How to use it:

1. Include the jQuery jqGuide plugin's style sheet in the head for core CSS styles.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/gen-style.css">

2. Prepare your data for the documentation following the JSON data structure like this:

{
"element":[
  {
    "name":"logChanges",
    "action":"writes",
    "scope":"utility",
    "line":67,
    "description":"Logs all changes brought to a handsontable instance",
    "parameters":[
      {
        "name":"change",
        "value":"array",
        "definition":"reads data from the handsontable change object",
        "required":true
      },
      {
        "name":"table",
        "value":"string",
        "definition":"text value of the table sending the log",
        "required":true
      },
      {
        "name":"method",
        "value":"string",
        "definition":"what method has sent the log data",
        "required":true
      }
    ],
    "returns":"array",
    "dependencies":[
      {
        "item":"change",
        "type":"object"
      }
    ]
  },
]
}

3. Include jQuery JavaScript library and the jQuery jqGuide plugin's JavaScript file on the webpage where needed.

<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jqGuide.js"></script>

4. Initialize the plugin to generate an API documentation from 'functions.json'.

$().jqguide({
  jsonSourceFolder:"data",
  jsonSourceData:"functions.json",
  parentItem:"body",
});

5. Default parameters for the plugin.

// data source folder
jsonSourceFolder:null,

// data file
jsonSourceData: null,

// parent container
parentItem: null,

// Generates a side navigation
createNav:false,

// Shows a document scroll progress bar
showProgress:true

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by davidemaser. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.