# JSDoc

Documentation generator that builds HTML API documentation from comments placed in JavaScript source code.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/jsdoc/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- home: https://jsdoc.app
- repository: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc
- docs: https://jsdoc.app/about-getting-started.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Michael Mathews
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 12
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: npm install -g jsdoc

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-10-08

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 15469
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1635070
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 132505
- dependentPackages: 14591

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://jsdoc.app/ (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://jsdoc.app/about-getting-started.html (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc (read 2026-10-22)
- runtime: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runtimeMin: https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdoc/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdoc/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdoc/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/jsdoc (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc (read 2026-10-22)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/jsdoc (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/jsdoc (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

JSDoc is an API documentation generator for JavaScript. It scans JavaScript source code and generates an HTML documentation website from it, as its [getting started guide](https://jsdoc.app/about-getting-started.html) describes. The Apache-2.0 licensed project is copyright Michael Mathews and the contributors to JSDoc, according to its README.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0