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API Docs Guidelines

Zeno Rocha edited this page Nov 27, 2013 · 12 revisions

All code should be properly documented using YUIDoc syntax, so when you are writing source code documentation, make sure that...

  • 1) Methods are described using simple present tense;

    Wrong:

     /**
      * Go to the next index.
      *
      * @method next
      */
    

    Right:

     /**
      * Goes to the next index.
      *
      * @method next
      */
    
  • 2) There's no HTML tag, only Markdown will be accepted;

    Wrong:

     /**
      * Holds the page items as a NodeList. The list could be queried
      * from the DOM trough Widget HTML_PARSER or generated if
      * <a href="Pagination.html#attr_total">total</a> attribute is specified.
      */
    

    Right:

     /**
      * Holds the page items as a NodeList. The list could be queried
      * from the DOM trough Widget HTML_PARSER or generated if
      * [total](Pagination.html#attr_total) attribute is specified.
      */
    
  • 3) Every description ends with a dot;

    Wrong:

     /**
      * A formatter function to format each pagination item
      *
      * @attribute formatter
      * @type Function
      */
    

    Right:

     /**
      * A formatter function to format each pagination item.
      *
      * @attribute formatter
      * @type Function
      */
    
  • 4) Line break should use 80 columns for comments;

    Wrong:

     /**
          * If `true` the render phase will be automatically invoked preventing the `.render()` manual call.
          *
          * @attribute render
          * @type Boolean
          */
    

    Right:

     /**
          * If `true` the render phase will be automatically invoked
          * preventing the `.render()` manual call.
          *
          * @attribute render
          * @type Boolean
          */
    

And remember you just need to follow a pattern :)