Ensure API documentation provides clear, accurate, and comprehensive information for developers. This includes precise function signatures, detailed parameter descriptions, correct terminology, and helpful external references.
Ensure API documentation provides clear, accurate, and comprehensive information for developers. This includes precise function signatures, detailed parameter descriptions, correct terminology, and helpful external references.
Key practices:
Example of good API documentation:
// Clear function signature with proper typing
function parse(text: string, options?: ParserOptions): Promise<AST> | AST;
// Detailed parameter description with examples
// The `file` parameter could be a normal path or a url string like `file:///C:/test.txt`
// Helpful external reference
Strings provided to `plugins` are ultimately passed to [`import()` expression](https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#import-expressions)
This approach helps developers understand exactly how to use APIs correctly and reduces confusion about parameter types, optional arguments, and expected behaviors.
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