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Ardoq vs jsdoc: What are the differences?

Ardoq: SaaS Platform focusing on automating and visualizing your documentation. Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs; jsdoc: 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.

Ardoq and jsdoc can be primarily classified as "Documentation as a Service &" tools.

Some of the features offered by Ardoq are:

  • Navigate Systems and Dependencies Through Interactive and Customizable Visualisations.
  • Perform Consequence Analysis Through Visualisations.
  • Extensive REST-api for Customisation and Automation.

On the other hand, jsdoc provides the following key features:

  • Up and running easily

- Command line interface

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Pros of Ardoq
Pros of jsdoc
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    Swagger API-visualization
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    Easy to use and auto generated views
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    Supports TOGAF ArchiMate 3.0
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    Far less verbose
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    Simpler type safe than TypeScript
  • 1
    No compiler needed
  • 1
    Does almost everything TS does

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What is Ardoq?

Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs.

What is jsdoc?

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.

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