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Dev-Docs Quickstart

See Dev-Docs in action! The quickstart requires that you have an account. If you haven't made one yet, see Create an Account and Org. If you have then you're ready to go!


To get started open our hello world repo that has a sample dev-docs.json file already configured.


Open and Run in GitHub Codespaces


Once open follow these steps.

Get Dev-Docs Extension Setup

Step 1: Install the Extension

Search Dev-Docs and then click install.

Step 2: Sign into Dev-Docs in VS Code

Click on the Dev-Docs extension button in your Github Codespace or VS Code Editor. Select sign in and then follow the steps to select the org you created when you set up your account.

Create Onboarding Docs on a codefile

Step 1: Open the index.js file

Click on the index.js file to open it.

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Step 2: Generate Documentation

Right click on index.js and find the dev-docs submenu and click generate documentation.

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Step 3: Wait and Open your documentation on Your Codefile

Wait for the documentation to generate, and then right click to open the context menu and click Open Dev-doc for current file. And you are done with Internal Documentation

Open Dev-doc and then clicked


Generate Public Documentation Site

Step 1: Click on the 'dev-docs: Populate External Docs' option to generate Public SDK Documentation

Open the command palette with shift cmd P, and find/click on the 'dev-docs: Populate External Docs' option.

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How it works

This codebase has the dev-docs.json in this repo is preconfigured to filter out specific aspects of the codebase to documentation as well as custom options to augment/customize the documentation

Dev-Docs AI Bot

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