jsdoc vs Read the Docs: What are the differences?

Developers describe jsdoc as "An API documentation generator for JavaScript". JSDoc 3 is an API documentation generator for JavaScript, similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc. You add documentation comments directly to your source code, right along side the code itself. The JSDoc Tool will scan your source code, and generate a complete HTML documentation website for you. On the other hand, Read the Docs is detailed as "Create, host, and browse documentation". Read the Docs hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar. We support webhooks so your docs get built when you commit code. There's also support for versioning so you can build docs from tags and branches of your code in your repository.

jsdoc and Read the Docs belong to "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by jsdoc are:

• Up and running easily

- Command line interface

On the other hand, Read the Docs provides the following key features:

• Github and Bitbucket Integration
• Auto-updating
• Internationalization

Read the Docs is an open source tool with 5.25K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Read the Docs's open source repository on GitHub.

commonality, Clovis, and MEGA Limited are some of the popular companies that use jsdoc, whereas Read the Docs is used by Hilenium, StratEx, and Scrapinghub. jsdoc has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Read the Docs, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.