Hopp Doc Gen

An API documentation generator CLI by https://hoppscotch.io

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Installation

$ npm install -g hdg

Or, with npx

$ npx hdg generate <path>

Usage

Usage: hdg <command> [options]

An API documentation generator CLI

Options:
  -V, --version              output the version number
  -h, --help                 display help for command

Commands:
  generate [options] <path>  Generate API Documentation
  help [command]             display help for command

Generate API Doc

Usage: hdg generate [options] <path>

Generate API Documentation

Options:
  -s, --skip-install        skip installation of vuepress and just create the markdown file
  -o, --output-path <path>  specify an output path (default: "docs")
  -r, --request-buttons     add a request button for each GET request
  -h, --help                display help for command

path - path to hoppscotch-collection.json exported from hoppscotch.io

Contributing Guidelines

• Clone the repository.
• Navigate to the directory and install dependencies with npm install.
• Now fire in npm link which creates a symlink and now hdg can be accessed globally.

Instructions

Hopp Doc Gen generates documentation (using Vuepress) based on Hoppscotch collections.

1. Navigate to https://hoppscotch.io/doc and export a collection. (by clicking on the Import/Export button in the Collections pane).

2. Then generate documentation using the following command:

$ npx hdg generate hoppscotch-collection.json

3. To preview your generated documentation, run

$ npm run docs:dev

4. Deploying to Netlify!!!

Once you feel like you're ready to publish the documentation, you can deploy it on Netlify.

To deploy your documentation to Netlify, you'll have to build the files first.

$ npm run docs:build

5. At this point, you need to create a GitHub repo to deploy your documentation on Netlify. So create a GitHub repo and give it an awesome name!

6. Then, push the documentation folder to your GitHub repo.

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/USERNAME/NAME_OF_REPO_WHERE_DOCUMENTATION_IS_TO_BE_DEPLOYED
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "generate api doc"
$ git push -u origin master

7. Once you're logged in at https://netlify.com, create a new site by clicking on New Site from Git. Choose your Git provider and then choose your awesome repo where the awesome documentation is located!

8. Under the Basic Build Settings, set build command as npm run docs:build and set the publish directory as docs/.vuepress/dist.

9. And then click on Deploy Site! And hopefully, Netlify should build your documentation and make it live! 🥳

10. Congratulations, you have successfully deployed your documentation on Netlify!