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Generate docs for hooks

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by examining react-docgen's existing generation path and the react-styleguidist integration cited in the issue; done means hooks with JSDoc such as the example produce usable generated documentation.

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Description

Since hooks have been released a while back, it would be nice to be able to generate docs for them.

For example, for a simple hook:

import {useState} from 'react';

/**
 * A hook to do something
 *
 * @param {object} params
 * @param {boolean} [params.disabled] Disable the thing
 * @returns {boolean}
 */
const useMyHook = (params) => {
  const [isUsing, setUsing] = useState(false);
  // Some logic here to invoke setUsing()
  return isUsing;
};

export default useMyHook;

There is not way to generate some docs. Or is there and I just can't find it?

NOTE: I am actually using react-styleguidist which uses this lib to generate component docs.

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