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Jesse McCarthy c1ffb9ff9b tools: restore change of signatures to opts hashes These signatures were originally converted to opts hashes in #3888. That change was misinterpreted as the intrinsic cause of a test failure and reverted in #6680. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6690 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>		2016-05-25 22:44:57 +02:00
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addon-verify.js	tools: fix tools/doc/addon-verify.js regression	2016-05-10 17:12:01 +02:00
common.js	tools: allow multiple added: version entries	2016-05-05 01:15:10 +02:00
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type-parser.js	lib,test,tools: alignment on variable assignments	2016-04-18 17:19:11 -07:00

README.md

Here's how the node docs work.

1:1 relationship from lib/<module>.js to doc/api/<module>.md

Each type of heading has a description block.

## module
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    Stability: 3 - Stable

description and examples.

### module.property
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* Type

description of the property.

### module.someFunction(x, y, [z=100])
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* `x` {String} the description of the string
* `y` {Boolean} Should I stay or should I go?
* `z` {Number} How many zebras to bring.

A description of the function.

### Event: 'blerg'
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* Argument: SomeClass object.

Modules don't usually raise events on themselves.  `cluster` is the
only exception.

## Class: SomeClass
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description of the class.

### Class Method: SomeClass.classMethod(anArg)
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* `anArg` {Object}  Just an argument
  * `field` {String} anArg can have this field.
  * `field2` {Boolean}  Another field.  Default: `false`.
* Return: {Boolean} `true` if it worked.

Description of the method for humans.

### someClass.nextSibling()
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* Return: {SomeClass object | null}  The next someClass in line.

### someClass.someProperty
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* String

The indication of what someProperty is.

### Event: 'grelb'
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* `isBlerg` {Boolean}

This event is emitted on instances of SomeClass, not on the module itself.

Modules have (description, Properties, Functions, Classes, Examples)
Properties have (type, description)
Functions have (list of arguments, description)
Classes have (description, Properties, Methods, Events)
Events have (list of arguments, description)
Methods have (list of arguments, description)
Properties have (type, description)