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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
Pros of Ardoq
- Swagger API-visualization2
- Easy to use and auto generated views1
- Supports TOGAF ArchiMate 3.01
Pros of jsdoc
- Far less verbose2
- Actively maintained1
- Simpler type safe than TypeScript1
- No compiler needed1
- Does almost everything TS does1