# Install jsdoc with npm

An API documentation generator for JavaScript. Version 4.0.5 via npm; verified 2025-10-08.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:jsdoc
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g jsdoc
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:jsdoc
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsdoc>
- **Version:** 4.0.5
- **Source summary:** An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdoc/-/jsdoc-4.0.5.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-10-08T02:59:14.675Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-08T02:59:14.675Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- jsdoc (cli)

## Dependencies

- @babel/parser
- @jsdoc/salty
- @types/markdown-it
- bluebird
- catharsis
- escape-string-regexp
- js2xmlparser
- klaw
- markdown-it
- markdown-it-anchor
- marked
- mkdirp
- requizzle
- strip-json-comments
- underscore

## Build dependencies

- ajv
- gulp
- gulp-eslint
- gulp-json-editor
- nyc

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 4.0.5
- Package-manager updated: 2025-10-08
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for jsdoc. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 4.0.5
- **Version Count:** 52
- **Maintainers:** hegemonic
- **Author:** Michael Mathews
- **Publisher:** hegemonic
- **Engines:** Node: >=12.0.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-P4C6MWP9yIlMiK8nwoZvxN84vb6MsnXcHuy7XzVOvQoCizWX5JFCBsWIIWKXBltpoRZXddUOVQmCTOZt9yDj9g==
- **Shasum:** fbed70e04a3abcf2143dad6b184947682bbc7315
- **Unpacked Size:** 1,467,726
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2011-09-19T20:52:42.664Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-10-08T02:59:14.675Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-10-08T02:59:14.856Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - jsdoc: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/jsdoc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [jsdoc-to-markdown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/jsdoc-to-markdown/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: api, documentation, generator, javascript, jsdoc.
- [esformatter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/esformatter/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: babel, comments, javascript, json, parser.
- [prettierx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/prettierx/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: babel, escape, escape-string-regexp, json, parser.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph