A web component for generating API documentation and live playgrounds from Custom Elements Manifest JSON.
API Viewer Element is a web component that generates interactive API documentation and live playgrounds for web components. It reads Custom Elements Manifest JSON files to automatically create a user-friendly interface for exploring component APIs, properties, events, and styling options, solving the problem of maintaining up-to-date documentation for web component libraries.
Web component developers and library maintainers who need to create and maintain interactive API documentation for their custom elements.
Developers choose API Viewer Element because it automates documentation generation from the standardized Custom Elements Manifest format, provides a live playground for interactive testing, and is itself a web component that can be easily embedded into any project.
API documentation and live playground for Web Components. Based on Custom Elements Manifest format
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Leverages Custom Elements Manifest to auto-generate docs from JSON files, ensuring documentation stays in sync with code changes, as shown by the simple <api-viewer src="./custom-elements.json"> integration.
Provides a live demo environment with editable properties, styles, and event logging, allowing real-time component testing, detailed in the live playground features like knobs and event log.
Offers separate <api-docs> and <api-demo> components for customizable documentation layouts, enabling use cases beyond the full viewer, as mentioned in the modular components section.
Supports custom HTML templates to extend demo functionality, allowing developers to add additional content or override default behavior, as highlighted in the templates feature.
Heavily reliant on accurate Custom Elements Manifest generation; if the manifest is missing, outdated, or incorrectly formatted, the documentation fails or displays incorrect information.
Exclusively designed for web components, making it unsuitable for documenting other frameworks like React or Angular without significant adaptation or additional tooling.
Requires integrating build tools to generate the Custom Elements Manifest, adding complexity to the workflow, especially for projects not already using this standard.
While inspired by Vuetify, deep styling changes may require overriding CSS or modifying source code, as the component's appearance is somewhat fixed without extensive template work.