Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services
This chapter is about documenting your code, public APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), and services. Documentation improves code understandability, maintainability, team member onboarding, and the design of APIs and services, and is invaluable during debugging and support.
As well as documentation skills, we will look at some tools for helping you produce documentation efficiently. DocFX is a powerful tool provided by Microsoft that can generate API documentation, conceptual documentation, and more from your source code and Markdown files.
Mermaid is a markup language and toolset for generating diagrams and charts, for example, sequence diagrams and flow charts. Combined with the Markdown markup language, it is quick and easy to write good-looking documentation. Most code editors have built-in support for markup languages like Markdown and Mermaid, or extensions and plugins that you can install.
This chapter covers the...
