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doc: mention quicker way to build docs
`make doc-only` skips the process of building Node, which speeds
things up considerably for new contributors.
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crawford committed May 9, 2024
commit c375cf0f00bf1f9d483dd8fe7a676026b05a0d20
7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions doc/contributing/api-documentation.md
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Expand Up @@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ The Node.js API documentation is generated by an in-house tooling that resides
within the [tools/doc](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/tools/doc)
directory.

The build process (using `make doc`) uses this tooling to parse the markdown
files in [doc/api](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/doc/api) and
generate the following:
The build process (using `make doc` or `make doc-only`) uses this tooling to
parse the markdown files in [doc/api][] and generate the following:

1. Human-readable HTML in `out/doc/api/*.html`
2. A JSON representation in `out/doc/api/*.json`
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -302,3 +301,5 @@ mutate the data and appends it to the final JSON object.

For a more in-depth information we recommend to refer to the `json.mjs` file as
it contains a lot of comments.

[doc/api]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/doc/api