The sveltedoc parser

Generate a JSON documentation for a Svelte file.

Table of Contents

• Changelog
  • [4.2.1] 15.12.2021
  • [4.2.0] 14.12.2021
  • [4.1.0] 19.02.2021
  • [4.0.0] 25.01.2021
• Install
• Features
  • Common
  • Svelte 2
  • Svelte 3
• Options
  • Supported feature names
• Output format
• Usage
• API
  • parse(options)
  • detectVersion(options)
• Issues
• Contributors
• License

Changelog

[4.2.1] 15.12.2021

• 🛠 [Fixed] - Add missed dependency.

[4.2.0] 14.12.2021

• 🔒 [Fixed] Upgrade all dependecies to latest version to solve known vulnarability issues.
• ✔ [Added] Add support ES6 default value assignment for method parameter Issue #75. Thanks for @ekhaled.
• ✔ [Added] Add support of method parsing when it assigned to identifier Issue #78. Thanks for @ekhaled.
• ✔ [Added] Extend typings to support self and trusted event modifiers [Issue #80].
• ✔ [Added] Introduce JSDocTypeFunction to support functions types in variable definitions and provide details about function parameters and methods.
• ✔ [Added] Extend JSDocType to support new JSDocTypeFunction.
• ✔ [Added] Improve type infering from assigned value. Currently support simple infering: array, object, function.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix the Issue #67, Issue #69: specifier comments are not parsed properly; Thanks to @ekhaled.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix the Issue #72: Module context scripts look for the wrong attribute.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix the Issue #83: Default value and keywords of exported aliases not merged.

[4.1.0] 19.02.2021

• 🎉 [Misc] Update the ReadMe by @soft-decay.
• ✔ [Added] Implement support of imported types parsing, f.ex. @type {import('../typings.d.ts').ExternalTypeClass}. In order to do this, new field importPath introduced to JSDocType, in the name property now it returns imported class name, f.ex.: ExternalTypeClass.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Complete fix of Issue #1: Support parsing event names from top-level constant objects with accessing to their properties by naming strings. Introduce the new issue Issue #48 about supporting parse of event names by external references.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix the Issue #47, now all comments in markup are parsed correctly and attached to required items in document. Support JSDoc comment markup parsing in all places where comment can be used.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix the Issue #61, now slot parameter items enrich with all detailed information that was parsed from markup comment.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Spec: add the module definition typings to typings.d.ts file.
• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix some edge-cases in script parsing logic.
• 🛠 [Tech] Refactor internal parser logic to make it easy to introduce new features, moves forward to TS support! ;)
• 🔥 [Breaking] Spec: change the SvelteSlotParameter definition, to support name, description, type fields, instead of many not relevant fields that was inherited from ISvelteItem interface.
• 🔥 [Breaking] Spec: change the SvelteSlotItem definition, to improve consistency:
  • Rename parameters property to params to be most likely the same as SvelteMethodItem. Old field still available until 5.* release.

Thanks a lot @soft-decay for contributing in this release!

[4.0.0] 25.01.2021

• 🛠 [Fixed] Fix Issue #42
• 🛠 [Fixed] Partially fixed Issue #1. Event names are now correctly parsed if provided by a top-level constant in the same file. Thanks to @soft-decay
• ✔ [Added] Support complete parsing of component method arguments Issue #39. Thanks to @soft-decay
• ✔ [Added] Support parsing of return type and description for methods in component Issue #37. Thanks to @soft-decay
• ✔ [Added] Options validation, Thanks to @soft-decay
• 🔥 [Breaking] API rework for component methods description:
  • args property renamed to params;
  • Change the structure of return item for methods:
    • desc property renamed to description;
    • type property now contains a JSDocType object instead of a string with a text representation of the type. This text representation is still available from the text property of the JSDocType object;
  • [Svelte2]: method arguments presented with plain array with names, now that replaced with objects of SvelteMethodParamItem type;
• 🔥 [Breaking] Cleanup deprecated code:
  • loc property removed: Use locations instead;
  • value property of SvelteComponentItem removed: Use importPath instead;

Full changelog of release versions can be found here.

Install

npm install --save sveltedoc-parser

Features

Common

• JSDoc support
  • Support description extraction for everything items
  • Support visibility scope from JSDoc keywords: @public, @protected, @private
• Extract list of imported components
  • Extract relative path to imported component (supports full-syntax and short-syntax import styles)
• Extract data properties
  • Extract description from JSDoc comment
  • Extract JS type from JSDoc (@type {string}) or parse default value if is not provided
• Extract computed properties with list of dependencies
• Extract list of references attached to components or HTML elements
• Extract information about events
  • Events that propagated from child component or HTML elements <button on:click>...</button>
  • Parse event modifiers ... on:click|once
• Extract list of used default and named slots
• Extract component methods
  • Extract description from JSDoc comment
  • Extract parameters description from JSDoc comment
  • Extract JS type from JSDoc for parameters (@param {string} parameter)
  • Identify optional parameters using brackets (@param [parameter]) or using Google ClosureCompiler syntax (@param {string=} parameter)
    • Identify default values for optional parameters (@param [parameter=Default value])
• Extract source locations for component symbols
  • data (props)
  • slots
  • methods
  • refs
  • events

Svelte 2

• Extract fired events
  • Events fired by this component using the fire(...) method
  • Custom event handlers with private visibility scope
• Extract component helpers
• Extract component actions
• Extract component transitions

Svelte 3

• Extract global component description and keywords from JSDoc comment
  • Top level comment must include @component. Example script, Example html
• Extract all dispatched events
  • Events that dispatched from script block by user-created dispatcher
  • Events that dispatched from markup expressions by user-created dispatcher

Options

The options object passed to the parse function must include filename or fileContent.

Here are the properties supported by options (see the Usage section below):

Supported feature names

These are the values that can be included in the options.features array:

Output format

Output format is described in this document.

For Svelte 3 examples, take a look at the examples folder to check how Svelte 3 components are transformed to JSON documents.

For a Svelte 2 example, take a look at the JSON output generated from this component.

Usage

Minimal example:

const sveltedoc = require('sveltedoc-parser');
const options = {
    filename: 'main.svelte'
};

sveltedoc.parse(options)
    .then(componentDoc => {
        console.log(componentDoc);
    })
    .catch(e => {
        console.error(e);
    });

or with options customization:

const { parse } = require('sveltedoc-parser');
const { externalFileContent } = require('./local-file');
const options = {
    fileContent: externalFileContent,
    encoding: 'ascii',
    features: ['data', 'computed', 'methods'],
    ignoredVisibilities: ['private'],
    includeSourceLocations: true,
    version: 3
};
const doc = await parse(options);
console.log(doc)

API

parse(options)

Method to parse svelte component and provide doc object structure with details information.

detectVersion(options)

Method to detect the Svelte syntax used in the component. It returns, in order:

• the value of options.version, if present; else
• 2 or 3 if Svelte 2 syntax or Svelte 3 syntax is detected, respectively; else
• the value of options.defaultVersion, if present; else
• undefined if the function failed to detect the syntax to use

Issues

A list of known issues can be found here.

Found a new issue? Please contribute and write a detailed description here.

Contributors

Author Alexey Mulyukin

Inspired by Vuedoc Parser

License

MIT