The dartdoc
command creates API reference documentation
from Dart source code.
You can add descriptions to the generated documentation
by using documentation comments,
which can contain markdown formatting.
For guidance on writing doc comments,
see the documentation part of Effective Dart.
Run dartdoc
from the root directory of your package. For example:
$ cd my_app
$ dartdoc
Documenting my_app...
...
Success! Docs generated into /Users/me/projects/my_app/doc/api
By default, the documentation files are static HTML files,
placed in the doc/api
directory.
To view the rendered documentation, you need an HTTP server.
Although dartdoc
is in the Dart SDK,
it’s also available in the dartdoc package.
You might use the package when you need a programmatic interface
or when you want to try features that
aren’t yet in the SDK’s version of dartdoc
.
For information on command-line options, use the --help
flag:
$ dartdoc --help