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How to write documentation for the Node.js project
This document refers to the Node.js API documentation that gets deployed to nodejs.org/en/doc and consists in a general reference on how to write and update such documentation.
Style Guide
For a style guide on how to write or update the Node.js documentation refer to the doc/README document.
Building
There are a few different commands that you can use to build and view the documentation locally, the simplest one being:
make docserve
This command builds the documentation, spins up a local server and provides you with a URL to it that you can navigate to in order to view the built documentation.
For more build options refer to the documentation building documentation.
And for more details about the tooling used to build the documentation refer to the API Documentation Tooling document.
Linting and Formatting
To make sure that your changes pass linting run the following command:
make lint-md