Component doc strings do not show in VSCODE
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 40/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python, vscode
- Domain
- build-system, documentation
Research direction
Start by tracing the dash-component-boilerplate build process that produces component docstrings, then compare its generated output with the dash-bootstrap-components output shown in the report. Reproduce the issue in VSCode on Windows and confirm that the full component and Dash HTML/core docstrings display correctly when done.
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Description
Hi,
I've noticed that the component doc strings are not showing correctly in VSCODE (on windows). This is also the case with the docstrings in the Dash html and core components libraties. All
you see is a one line header, eg:

The docstrings in the dash-bootstrap-components do show correctly:

The problem must be part of the dash-component-boilerplate build process but I've not
been able to spot it.
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- Python
- Stars
- 294
- Forks
- 196
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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