I'm looking for a tool to generate the documentation for JavaScript functions and properties even if there are no appropriately formatted comment blocks associated with those functions or properties (like Doxygen does).
This comparison between JSDoc and some other documenting tools mentions that JSDoc can parse the source code to generate documentation even if there is no comment blocks (something like Doxygen, as I mentioned above). They say that all other tools only parse the comment blocks.
I installed JSDoc 3.3.0-alpha4 from npm (on node) according to this instruction and I am trying to generate documentation for my project. As far as I can see JSDoc doesn't generate any documentation for functions or properties that don't have proper comments with relevant JSDoc flags.
I know JSDoc has gone through many iterations, has this functionality been removed or I am not using proper switches? I tried to check the command line options but couldn't find any switches for that. I am simply using it like this:
./node_modules/.bin/jsdoc -r -l my_project --destination doc/
I know there are other tools that can automatically add documentation blocks to the code, e.g. smartcomments, but it's not exactly what I am looking for. Can anyone shed some light on that?