A Docsify plugin for documenting web components.
npm install docsify-web-component-docs
A Docsify plugin for displaying documentation for Custom Elements (Web Components).
You must provide a Custom Elements Manifest (CEM)
file for this plugin to function. You can generate one for your project by
incorporating the CEM Analyzer
into your build process.
Refer to Docsify Breeze
for a fully integrated example:
- CEM Analyzer config: custom-elements-manifest.config.js
- ESBuild script that runs cem analyze as part of the build process: build.js
- Documentation example for a component: button.ts
This project supports an additional status field, which is not part of the
default CEM specification. Refer to the aforementioned config example for
including this field in your CEM file.
``html`
Default styles, which you can override or replace with your own:
`html`
rel="stylesheet"
href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify-web-component-docs@1/dist/web-component-docs.min.css"
/>
Include the following tags in your Markdown file to display component
documentation information:
`mdButton
[component-status:ds-button]
[component-description:ds-button]
[component-metadata:ds-button]
`
š” Protip: If your filename matches the name of your component (e.g., ds-button.md)[component-status]
then you can exclude the component name in the tag (e.g., just ).
#### [component-description:ds-button]
The description of your component, as provided in the first line of your
component's documentation block:
`js`
/**
* This is the description of a component.
*
* [...]
*/
@customElement("ds-button")
export default class DsButton extends LitElement {
...
}
#### [component-status:ds-button]
The status of your component, as provided in your documentation's component
block:
`js`
/**
* This is the description of a component.
*
* @status ready
*
* [...]
*/
@customElement("ds-button")
export default class DsButton extends LitElement {
...
}
This field requires a custom tag in your CEM config, as noted in Requirements. The default styles for this plugin support
"draft", "ready", and "deprecated", but you can provide any desired value to
this field and style it as desired.
#### [component-metadata:ds-button]
Complete metadata tables for slots, properties, events, methods, CSS parts, and
CSS custom properties.
- Type: Stringundefined
- Default:
Required. The path to your
Custom Elements Manifest
file (see requirements).
- Type: Stringundefined
- Default:
An optional standardized prefix used by all your components. For example, dsds-button
if all your components are named such as and ds-card. Setting
this feature will allow you to exclude the prefix when specifying the component
name in tags.
You can see this plugin in use as part of Docsify Breeze (Live example, GitHub project).
You can test this project locally in a demo Docsify installation.
First, clone this repo:
``
git clone https://github.com/zolk/docsify-web-component-docs.git
Then install dependencies (you'll need
Node installed and the
docsify command available):
``
npm install -g docsify-cli
npm install
Finally, boot the local dev server:
```
npm start
By default, the server will boot at http://localhost:3000.
This plugin was inspired by and builds upon work done for the Shoelace
component library documentation by Cory LaViska.
This project was created by Kevin Zolkiewicz and is licensed
under an MIT License.

This project is supported by 8th Light.