docprint

Introduction

Renders API Blueprint files to static HTML files. API Blueprint is a Markdown-based documentation format which can be used for writing API documentations.

Features

• Attributes of resources rendered separately
• Nested Attributes
• Can add custom header and custom css file
• Supports code snippets of six different languages
• Waypoint support
• Markdown support
• Clean UI

Example

Example can be seen in the build folder. Output for Polls api blueprint file is rendered here.

Installation & Usage

We can use docprint as an executable as well as node js library. Seven documentation files will be created in different folders for different languages.

Executable

Install docprint via NPM. You need nodejs for install.

npm install -g docprint

docprint -p './build/apib/polls.apib' -d './build/docs' -h './build/files/header.html' -c './build/files/custom.css'

Node js Library

You can also use docprint as a library. First, install and save it as a dependency:

npm install --save docprint

Then, convert some API Blueprint to HTML:

var docprint = require('docprint');

var filepath = './build/apib/polls.apib';
var destination = './build/docs';
var header = './build/files/header.html';
var css = './build/files/custom.css';

docprint({
	filepath: filepath,
	destination: destination,
	header: header,
	css: css
})

File inclusions

Files can be included in to index file using this format. For more info see hercule

:[name](path)

For Eg:

:[Overview](blueprint/overview.md)
:[Search](blueprint/search.apib)
:[Products](blueprint/products.json)

Language selection

During language selection in the documentation, it will replace the 'language keyword' from url with the new language selected. You should mount the static files in the application in a similar way so that changing url should work for different languages.

For eg: http://api.xyz.com/docs/curl/index.html --- for curl while selecting php, url will change to http://api.xyz.com/docs/php/index.html --- by replacing curl with php

Reference

docprint (options)

Renders the documentation. Options object can contain :

Option	Type	Description
filepath	string	location of api blueprint file
destination	string	destination of documentation generated
header	string	location of file containing html header
css	string	location of file containing custom css
headerhtml	string	header html string - (optional)