Asciidoctor vs JSDoc
Asciidoctor
asciidoctor.orgJSDoc
jsdoc.appSide by side
| Figure | Asciidoctor | JSDoc |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Documentation Generators | 8.9 (#1) | 7.2 (#27) |
| Integrations | The project ecosystem includes Maven and Gradle plugins, browser extensions, an IntelliJ plugin, and tools such as Asciidoctor Diagram. | The project README lists community templates, Grunt and Gulp plugins, a GitHub Action, and a GitBook integration. |
| License | The processor is open source software available under the MIT license. | The JSDoc generator is free software licensed under Apache License 2.0. |
| Purpose | Asciidoctor parses AsciiDoc source and converts it into publishable formats such as HTML 5 and PDF. | JSDoc is an API documentation generator for JavaScript that scans source code comments and generates an HTML documentation website. |
| Support | The documentation directs users seeking real-time community support to the project chat’s #users stream. | The project README directs users to the JSDoc Users mailing list and Stack Overflow questions tagged `jsdoc` for help. |
Plans
In their own words
Asciidoctor
Asciidoctor is a free, open-source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc files or strings into formats such as HTML5, DocBook, PDF, EPUB 3 and manual pages. Its core includes converters for HTML5, DocBook 5 and man pages; PDF and EPUB 3 conversion comes from separate gems. Documents can be processed through a command-line interface or Ruby API. Asciidoctor runs with Ruby, on the JVM through AsciidoctorJ, or in JavaScript environments through Asciidoctor.js, and supports Linux, macOS and Windows. The wider ecosystem includes Maven and Gradle plugins, browser and editor extensions, and diagram tools. Default HTML output includes a stylesheet and integrations such as Font Awesome, highlight.js, Rouge, Pygments and MathJax. It is distributed as a RubyGem, Docker image, Linux packages and macOS packages, and is licensed under MIT. Its security modes include SECURE, SAFE, SERVER and UNSAFE; safe modes do not sanitize generated output or provide a comprehensive security framework.