WebStorm: How to generate JSDoc documentation

Question

I just started using WebStorm and JSDoc to document my JavaScript. Still I have not found a way to generate a HTML documentation using some kind of WebStorm built-in functionality. I searched the web and Stack Overflow, but only found a lot of questions about the syntax of JSDoc, etc.

What am I missing? I am using WebStorm 7.0.3.

Answer 1

Nice article about jsDoc for phpStorm at this link.

In WebStorm I guess the same.

Answer 2

Since Webstorm v8.0.0, you can create JSDoc comments by simply typing /** right before the method or function declaration you want to add the documentation, and then press Enter, this will generate a basic block with all your parameters already set.

More info on this Webstorm article.

Answer 3

WebStorm has no built-in functionality to generate documentation. You can use external solutions for that, at least as https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc

I use jsduck for that: https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck

Answer 4

WebStorm has a built-in function to help a little when creating JSDoc documentation in your code, they explain it in this article. As far as I could look for, there's no plugin on the WebStorm plugin store to further help us creating nor rendering JSDoc documentation. For that, you would need to use external tools.