Apache Cordova API Documentation

The JavaScript API documentation for Apache Cordova.

The documentation is available at docs.cordova.io.

Documentation Format

All of the Apache Cordova documentation is written with markdown, a lightweight markup language that can be typeset to HTML. Markdown provides a simple and flexible way to document Cordova's core API and platform-specific APIs.

File Structure

docs/
docs/LANGUAGE
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/guide/platforms/PLATFORMNAME/

Contributing to the Documentation

Report or Fix an Issue

We use Apache JIRA

By the way, you rock! Thanks for helping us improve the documentation!

Using Git

Are you new to Git or contributing on GitHub?

We have written a few Git tutorials to help you get started with contributing to the documentation.

Sending Pull Requests

Pull requests are welcome!

We appreciate the use of topic branches.

git checkout -b issue_23

# code

git commit -m "Issue 23: Fix a bad bug."

git push origin issue_23

# send pull request from branch issue_23 to cordova:master

Adding a Language

Do you want the Apache Cordova documentation in another language? We do too! With the support of Crowdin, a translation and localization management platform, translators can login to the easy-to-use tooling and provide as much or as little translation assistance as they would like. If you know another language please support Cordova and contribute. http://crowdin.net/project/cordova. For some best practices for using the Crowdin tool please see our wiki http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/CordovaTranslations.

Cordova language administrators, don't forget these steps:

1. config.json

For each language and version, there is a config.json that defines the name of the language and how to merge the files.

2. Customizing HTML template

Each language can override the default template in template/docs/LANGUAGE.

Editorial Guidelines

Please see the STYLESHEET.md file for guidelines on language and usage.

Generating Documentation with Node.js

Right now documentation could be run using Node.js either on Windows, or on Linux box.

$ ./bin/genjs           # compile all docs
$ ./bin/genjs en edge   # compile English Edge docs
$ ./bin/genjs ru edge   # compile Russian Edge docs
$ ./bin/genjs es 3.5.0  # compile Spanish 3.5.0 docs

Setting up Node.js

1. Go to Node.JS downloads page

2. Download and install package for your operation system.

3. Checkout this repository using Git

    git clone https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs
   

4. Install dependencies. In the root of the cloned cordova-docs folder run

    npm install
   

5. Now you able to build documentation locally.

Quick Preview

When making minor edits, it is usually safe to simply render the edited from Markdown to HTML. Many code editors have plugins to render Markdown to HTML and there are a handful of good online editors.

Currently, a Node.JS script and joDoc-js are used to generate the HTML documentation.

Generating a Version Release

There is a Rake task to increment the version, generate the version directory, and update the edge documentation.

# generate version 4.1.0 for english.
.\bin\incrementversion en 4.1.0