@clean-jsdoc-theme/typedoc

A fast, modern, LLM-friendly documentation site for your TypeScript project, powered by TypeDoc.

A TypeDoc plugin that turns your project's reflections into a fast, modern static site: server-rendered HTML, lazily-hydrated interactive islands, fuzzy + full-text search, light and dark themes, and a companion .md of every page for LLMs.

Highlights

• Built for TypeScript — your TypeDoc reflections become a structured API model, then a polished static site. No CSS or build config to get started.
• Fast & framework-free — server-rendered pages with lazily-hydrated Preact islands; each page loads only the JS it actually uses.
• Search built in — a fuzzy command palette (Ctrl K) over titles, descriptions, content, and per-member deep links. Always on, nothing to configure.
• Guides + API in one site — hand-written Markdown guides and the auto-generated reference share one sidebar and one search.
• Localization in progress — the clean-jsdoc i18n tooling already extracts translatable strings from a TypeDoc project; the full per-locale build (with a language switcher, per-language fonts, and hreflang) is landing next.
• LLM-friendly — every page ships a clean companion .md, plus a copy-page button to hand any page to Claude / ChatGPT / Perplexity. A downloadable skill turns any coding assistant into a setup expert.
• Polished by default — light/dark OKLCH themes, Google Fonts, shiki syntax highlighting, a Monaco source viewer, and Source: file:line links.

Quick start

npm install --save-dev typedoc @clean-jsdoc-theme/typedoc

typedoc is a peer dependency — you bring your own. Load the plugin and select its output in typedoc.json; theme options live under cleanJsdocTheme:

{
  "entryPoints": ["src/index.ts"],
  "plugin": ["@clean-jsdoc-theme/typedoc"],
  "outputs": [{ "name": "clean-jsdoc-theme", "path": "dist" }],
  "cleanJsdocTheme": {
    "siteName": "My Library",
    // Optional: a directory of hand-written Markdown/HTML guides rendered
    // alongside the API (folder layout → URL + sidebar group; per-file
    // frontmatter overrides; a root `index.md` becomes the home page).
    "docs": "docs"
  }
}

The home page comes from TypeDoc's own top-level "readme" option (or a root docs/index.md). Both readme and the theme block sit at the top level of typedoc.json — readme is TypeDoc's, the theme options nest under cleanJsdocTheme.

Build, then serve over HTTP (the island chunks and the search index are fetched, which file:// blocks):

npx typedoc
npx serve dist

Documentation

• Setup & full reference — ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/theme/typedoc-getting-started: installation, the cleanJsdocTheme options, and theming — everything configured under cleanJsdocTheme in your typedoc.json.
• Using JSDoc instead? Install clean-jsdoc-theme — the JSDoc template with the same look and feature set.
• FAQ & recipes — ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/guides/faq: how to embed CodePen / YouTube / sites, write rich doc comments (callouts, steps), and common config tweaks.
• Live demo — ankdev.me/clean-jsdoc-theme/api-docs: a real generated API reference, so you can see the output before installing.

Contributing 🤝

Feedback shapes this plugin directly, and contributors are welcome:

• 🐛 Hit a bug or odd output? Open an issue with a small reproduction — that's the single most useful thing you can do.
• 💡 Missing something or have an idea? Feature requests and questions are welcome in the issue tracker.
• 🛠️ Want to dig in? PRs are genuinely welcome. The adapter lives in packages/typedoc/ (its NOTES.md records the verified TypeDoc API facts it relies on). Friendly areas to start: type rendering, reflection edge cases, and the localized build. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

No contribution is too small — a typo fix, a repro, or a docs tweak all help. Verified against TypeDoc 0.28.x. Thanks for helping make the TypeScript documentation story great. ❤️

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has helped build clean-jsdoc-theme.

License

MIT © Ankit Kumar