esdoc-uploader

A node module that connects with the ESDoc hosting service API in order to generage the documentation for your project.

I've been using ESDoc for a while now, and something great about it it's that they provide a hosting service for you documentation. You only need to have your project hosted on GitHub and provide them with its url, the service will take care of cloning your repo, finding your esdoc.json file, generating the docs and publishing them, which I think it's pretty awesome!

Now, the only complication it's that every time you deploy a new change, you have to go to the page and submit a form with your repo url; but if you are working with continuous integration, doing that manually kind of kills the whole idea :P. and that's the reason of this project.

Information

Installation

You can install it using npm.

npm install esdoc-uploader --save_dev

Usage

Command line

$(npm bin)/esdoc-uploader

That's all, esdoc-uploader will automatically look up your package.json, get your repository information and start the process.

As a module

// Import the module class
var ESDocUploader = require('esdoc-uploader');

// Instantiate an object with a valid url
var uploader = new ESDocUploader('git@github.com:homer0/gulp-bundlerify.git');

// For extra precaution, check if the url is valid
if (uploader.canUpload()) {
    uploader.upload(function(success, url) {
        // Checks whether the process ended in success
        if (success) {
            // Logs a confirmation
            console.log('Documents uploaded to: ', url);
        } else {
            console.log('Something went wrong, check the errors above');
        }
    });
}

Pretty simple right? it only has three public methods:

• The constructor, which receives an already formatted GitHub url. Or you can ignore the argument and it will work like on the command line, looking for the information in your package.json.
• canUpload(): It checks if the upload process can be done or not.
• upload(): It starts uploading everything to the API. It receives a callback parameter, which will be called when the process finishes. The callback will receive two arguments: a boolean value to check if the process was successful, and in case it was, the url for where the documentation it's being hosted.

Development

Install Git hooks

./hooks/install

npm tasks

• npm run build: Generate a new build of the module.
• npm test: Run the module's unit tests.
• npm run coverage: Run the unit tests and open the coverage report on the browser.
• npm run lint: Lint the plugin's code with JSCS and ESLint.
• npm run docs: Generate the project documentation.

License

MIT. License file.