![]() ![]() ![]() Docstrings for objects can be disabled, overridden, or whitelisted with a special module-level dictionary _pdoc_.When I use a framework without reading its documentation It’s semi-automatic because it uses your code to create the main docs, but it will add more useful info if you have docstrings. So pdoc takes you code (modules, functions/methods, classes, variables) and creates a browsable (html/plaintext) documentation. Pdoc only extracts public API documentation ( if their identifiers don’t begin with an underscore ‘_’) variables (including globals, class variables, and instance variables) functions (including methods, properties, coroutines …), Python package pdoc provides types, functions, and a command-line interface for accessing public documentation of Python modules, and for presenting it in a user-friendly, industry-standard open format Or you can try a standalone installation. FastAPI has Swagger-UI built in - no need for external libraries.If you are using a framework, then a ready-to-go library: The installation will vary depending on how you serve your API. Swagger creates this beautiful documentation automagically, but your API needs to follow the OpenAPI Specification (originally known as the Swagger Specification). Can get fragmented - it’s hard to maintain one, consistent documentation. “Out-of-date” documentation can lead to misunderstandings and slower developmentĢ.Creating documentation is not a “pleasant” activity for the developers (compared to creating code) - some developers don’t like to create the documentation, they will be demotivated when asked to do it. It’s hard to keep it up-to-date, especially in startup projects with rapid changesģ. Requires time (and money) - sometimes a project can’t afford to spend time on documentation.Ģ.Promotes standards and consistency Cons of creating documentation? Increases development speed - finding information is faster and thus development is fasterĦ. Increases team member awareness of how the whole project is organizedĥ. Helps to organize big projects (helps to see the big picture)Ĥ. Decreases onboarding time of new membersģ.Increases information exchange between team members- this single reason is just so powerful!.But is it worth to create documentation in the first place? Pros of creating good documentation: “Let him who created a project with perfect documentation be the first to throw an exception at the server.” - Bartek SkwiraĬreating a good, usable, up-to-date documentation is not that easy. Personally I’m guilty of all the “sins” above. ignored existing documentation - there was some documentation, but we didn’t read it.created documentation that nobody needed.created documentation that went obsolete really fast.didn’t create any documentation for a project (the chances are pretty high that it was a startup )).Input used in their production they are not affected by this license. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.ĭocuments produced by doxygen are derivative works derived from the No representations are made about the suitability of this softwareįor any purpose. ![]() Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and itsĭocumentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby Furthermore, executables for Windows are available. As a result, it runs on most other Unix flavors as well. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation (as I did for the doxygen user manual and web-site).ĭoxygen is developed under Mac OS X and Linux, but is set-up to be highly portable. Doxygen can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in ) from a set of documented source files. Doxygen also supports the hardware description language VHDL. Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, and to some extent D. ![]()
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