Require JSDoc comment (require-jsdoc)

JSDoc is a JavaScript API documentation generator. It uses specially-formatted comments inside of code to generate API documentation automatically. For example, this is what a JSDoc comment looks like for a function:

/**
 * Adds two numbers together.
 * @param {int} num1 The first number.
 * @param {int} num2 The second number.
 * @returns {int} The sum of the two numbers.
 */
function sum(num1, num2) {
    return num1 + num2;
}

Some style guides require JSDoc comments for all functions as a way of explaining function behavior.

Rule Details

This rule generates warnings for nodes that do not have JSDoc comments when they should. Supported nodes:

Options

This rule accepts a require object with its properties as

Default option settings are

{
    "require-jsdoc": ["error", {
        "require": {
            "FunctionDeclaration": true,
            "MethodDefinition": false,
            "ClassDeclaration": false
        }
    }]
}

The following patterns are considered problems:

/*eslint "require-jsdoc": ["error", {
    "require": {
        "FunctionDeclaration": true,
        "MethodDefinition": true,
        "ClassDeclaration": true
    }
}]*/

function foo() {
    return 10;
}

class Test{
    getDate(){}
}

The following patterns are not considered problems:

/*eslint "require-jsdoc": ["error", {
    "require": {
        "FunctionDeclaration": true,
        "MethodDefinition": true,
        "ClassDeclaration": true
    }
}]*/

/**
* It returns 10
*/
function foo() {
    return 10;
}

/**
* It returns 10
*/
var foo = function() {
    return 10;
}

var array = [1,2,3];
array.filter(function(item) {
    return item > 2;
});

/**
* It returns 10
*/
class Test{
    /**
    * returns the date
    */
    getDate(){}
}

When Not To Use It

If you do not require JSDoc for your functions, then you can leave this rule off.

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 1.4.0.

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