JSDoc: Lookup tutorials from different directories

Question

Is there a way to ask JSDoc (either in the command line or through grunt-jsdoc plugin) to lookup tutorials from different directories ?

As per the documentation, -u allows to specify the Directory in which JSDoc should search for tutorials. (it says the Directory instead of Directories).

I tried the following with no luck:

• specify different strings separated by space or comma
• specify one string with shell/ant regular expression

Answer 1

As suggested by @Vasil Vanchuk, a solution would be creating links to all tutorial files within a single directory. As such, JSDoc3 will be happy and it will proceed with the generation of all tutorials.

Creating/maintaining links manually would be a tedious task. Hence, and for people using grunt, the grunt-contrib-symlink come in handy. Using this plugin, the solution is reduced to a config task.

My Gruntfile.js looks like the following:

clean:['tmp', 'doc'],

symlink: {
    options: {
        overwrite: false,
    },
    tutorials: {
        files: [{
            cwd: '../module1/src/main/js/tut',
            dest: 'tmp/tutorial-generation-workspace',
            expand: true,
            src: ['*'],
        }, {
            cwd: '../module2/src/main/js/tut',
            dest: 'tmp/tutorial-generation-workspace',
            expand: true,
            src: ['*'],
        }]
    }
},

jsdoc: {
    all: {
        src: [
            '../module1/src/main/js/**/*.js',
            '../module2/src/main/js/**/*.js',
            './README.md',
        ],
        options: {
            destination: 'doc',
            tutorials: 'tmp/tutorial-generation-workspace',
            configure : "jsdocconf.json",
            template: 'node_modules/grunt-jsdoc/node_modules/ink-docstrap/template',
        },
    }
},

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-symlink');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jsdoc');

grunt.registerTask('build', ['clean', 'symlink', 'jsdoc']);
grunt.registerTask('default', ['build']);

Integrating new module is translated by updating symlink and jsdoc tasks.