The JavaScript API documentation for Apache Cordova.
The documentation is available at docs.cordova.io.
All of the Apache Cordova documentation is written with markdown, a lightweight markup language that can be typeset to HTML. Markdown provides a simple and flexible way to document Cordova's core API and platform-specific APIs.
docs/ docs/LANGUAGE docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/ docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/ docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/className.md docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/className.functionName.md
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Are you new to Git or contributing on GitHub?
We have written a few Git tutorials to help you get started with contributing to the documentation.
Pull requests are welcome!
We appreciate the use of topic branches.
git checkout -b issue_23 # code git commit -m "Issue 23: Fix a bad bug." git push origin issue_23 # send pull request from branch issue_23 to cordova:master
Do you want the Apache Cordova documentation in another language? We do too!
1. Create the language directory
# Spanish mkdir docs/es
2. Add a version
Start with the latest stable release. You can always add other versions later.
mkdir docs/es/1.0.0
3. Begin Translating
Currently, English is the most up-to-date and so it is easiest to copy each English file into the new language directory.
4. config.json
For each version, there is a config.json
that defines the name of the language and how to merge the files.
5. Customizing HTML template
Each language can override the default template in template/docs/LANGUAGE
.
When making minor edits, it is usually safe to simply render the edited from Markdown to HTML. Many code editors have plugins to render Markdown to HTML and there are a handful of good online editors.
Currently, a Ruby script and joDoc are used to generate the HTML documentation.
Clone joDoc
git clone http://github.com/davebalmer/joDoc.git
Add joDoc/ to your path
Open ~/.bashrc
or ~/.profile
(or whatever you use)
export PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/joDoc/
Install markdown
# Use your package manager brew install markdown
Install nokogiri (Ruby HTML parser)
gem install nokogiri
Install json (Ruby JSON parser)
gem install json
bin/generate
If all you want to generate is edge/English, then
bin/generate --edge
There is a Rake task to increment the version, generate the version directory, and update the edge documentation.
# generate version 1.7.0 rake version[1.7.0]
./bin/generate
If you get the following error:
./bin/../lib/cordova/navigation_menu.rb:14:in `read': can't convert nil into String (TypeError) from ./bin/../lib/cordova/navigation_menu.rb:14:in `initialize' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:86:in `new' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:86:in `after_jodoc' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:55:in `run' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:45:in `foreach' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:45:in `run' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:41:in `foreach' from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:41:in `run' from ./bin/generate:6
You may need to add the following line to the joDoc script:
$markdown_bin = "/path/to/Markdown.pl";
For more details, see the Issue #590.