Docusaurus Plugin react-docgen-typescript

A Docusaurus 2.x plugin that help generate and consume auto-generated docs from react-docgen-typescript.

Installation

Grab from NPM and install along with react-docgen-typescript:

npm i --save-dev docusaurus-plugin-react-docgen-typescript react-docgen-typescript

Usage

Inside your docusaurus.config.js add to the plugins field and configure with the src option with full glob support 👍.

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    [
      "docusaurus-plugin-react-docgen-typescript",
      /** @type {import('docusaurus-plugin-react-docgen-typescript').Options} */
      {
        // pass in a single string or an array of strings
        src: ["path/to/**/*.tsx", "!path/to/**/*test.*"],
        parserOptions: {
          // pass parserOptions to react-docgen-typescript
          // here is a good starting point which filters out all
          // types from react
          propFilter: (prop, component) => {
            if (prop.parent) {
              return !prop.parent.fileName.includes("@types/react");
            }

            return true;
          },
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

Any pattern supported by fast-glob is allowed here (including negations).

src paths are relative to the location of your docusaurus.config.js. For example, if you had a directory structure like:

.
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── package.json
├── src
...
├── website
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── babel.config.js
│   ├── blog
│   ├── docs
│   ├── docusaurus.config.js
|   ...
│   ├── src
│   └── yarn.lock
└── yarn.lock

Then to document all of your JSX components in your src/ directory, you would use this path: ../src/**/*.jsx.

Reading Annotations

Using the default settings, annotations are stored inside of the .docusaurus directory. The @docgen alias is set to ensure stable access to these files.

Build a Prop Table

Most of the time props will want to be shown as API information to a particular component. For convenience, we can use a simple hook from this package to dynamically import .json files:

import { useDynamicImport } from "docusaurus-plugin-react-docgen-typescript/useDynamicImport";

type MyProps = {
  /* ... */
};

export const PropTable = ({ name }) => {
  const props = useDynamicImport<MyProps>(name);

  if (!props) {
    return null;
  }

  return (
    <table>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>Name</th>
          <th>Type</th>
          <th>Default Value</th>
          <th>Required</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        {Object.keys(props).map((key) => {
          return (
            <tr key={key}>
              <td>
                <code>{key}</code>
              </td>
              <td>
                <code>{props[key].type?.name}</code>
              </td>
              <td>
                {props[key].defaultValue && (
                  <code>{props[key].defaultValue.value}</code>
                )}
              </td>
              <td>{props[key].required ? "Yes" : "No"}</td>
              <td>{props[key].description}</td>
            </tr>
          );
        })}
      </tbody>
    </table>
  );
};

N.b. If you use global: true, then you must use the useGlobalData hook to access the docgen data. You cannot use useDynamicImport.

Options

Name	Type	Required	Description
src	string | string[]	Yes	Tell react-docgen where to look for source files.
global	boolean	No	Store results so they're globally accessible in docusaurus
route	RouteConfig	No	Makes docgen results accessible at the specified URL. Note modules cannot be overridden.
tsConfig	string	No	Specify the path to your custom tsconfig file (note that in most cases the default config is sufficient)
compilerOptions	CompilerOptions	No	Pass custom ts compiler options in lieu of of a custom tsConfig
parserOptions	ParserOptions	No	Options passed to react-docgen-typescript