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# jsdoc-to-markdown
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# jsdoc-to-markdown
Generates markdown API documentation from [jsdoc](http://usejsdoc.org) annotated source code. Useful for injecting API docs into project README files.
## Synopsis
1\. Document your code using valid jsdoc comments.
```js
/**
* A quite wonderful function.
* @param {object} - Privacy gown
* @param {object} - Security
* @returns {survival}
*/
function protection (cloak, dagger) {}
```
2\. Run a command.
```sh
$ jsdoc2md example.js
```
3\. Get markdown output.
```markdown
## protection(cloak, dagger) ⇒ survival
A quite wonderful function.
**Kind**: global function
| Param | Type | Description |
| ------ | ------------------- | ------------ |
| cloak | object | Privacy gown |
| dagger | object | Security |
```
## Install
```
$ npm install --save-dev jsdoc-to-markdown
```
## See also
* [API documentation](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown/blob/master/docs/API.md)
* The [wiki](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown/wiki) for example output, FAQs, tutorials, plugins, use with gulp/grunt etc.
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© 2014-22 Lloyd Brookes \<75pound@gmail.com\>.
Tested by [test-runner](https://github.com/test-runner-js/test-runner).