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Docco
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Great for beginners
Since Docco doesn't enforce any comment style or rules, it's great for beginners who can instantly pick up without having to learn any new syntax or style.
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Does not enforce a pattern in writing comments
Since Docco only accepts comment lines starting with double slashes, it does not really enforce any pattern in writing comments, at least not as much as it would if it would use comment blocks. This can bring a huge disparity and even make it harder for Docco to generate good documentation as the project grows larger.
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Markdown support
All the comments are run through a markdown parser, while all the code is run through Highlight.js for code highlighting.
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YUIDoc
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Cross-platform
YUIDoc is not available for JavaScript only, it supports every language that has /**/ comment blocks.
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The name of the method/class need to be mentioned in the comments
Since YuiDoc only parses comment blocks, it requires the names of the methods to be specified there, ignoring what's outside of the comment block.
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Great output
YUIDoc's default theme is very appealing. The output it renders is very readable, searchable and user-friendly.
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Live preview
A standalone doc server is included which allows you to easily preview the documentation as it's being written.
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apiDoc
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Only really useful for RESTful web APIs
Can't be used for documenting the application in general
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Built in REST client
Adds ability to test out your endpoints from the documentation
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Multi language support
Supports documenting other languages (other than just JS)
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Spinx-js
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Friendly interface
Quick involvement in documentation
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Not quite as simple as JSDoc
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Automatic testing of code snippets
Also, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs)
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Some plug ins have poor quality
Sphinx is an open source project, while the main project is actively maintained, some plug-ins developed by volunteers are not maintained.
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You can write documentation that describes things. Tutorial like. Unlike JSDocs which is only for APIs
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A tool that is used in many projects
http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/examples.html
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Dgeni
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no @tag
Clever enought to recognise a description. Which means less thing to write...
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Missing templates
The docuementation generated is really simple. It does need more elaborated template. A beautiful documentation is more easy to read...
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No documentation/tutorial
Hard to configure and there is almost no documentation or clear example/tutorial.
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