The silent
template outputs nothing at all. Why would that be useful? Primarily for running JSDoc as a linter to check for syntax errors and unrecognized tags in documentation comments, although it may also be useful for testing or benchmarking purposes.
./jsdoc myscript.js -t templates/silent -a all --pedantic
This command exits with a non-zero exit code if any errors are encountered. It writes nothing to disk and the only output it produces is any error messages written to stderr
. This command can also be used to warn about tags which are unknown to JSDoc by setting "allowUnknownTags": false
in a configuration file.