setu Examples

setu is internal. You don't call generateSite in a normal docs build — the JSDoc and TypeDoc bridges call it for you. You reach for it directly only when you're building a custom bridge (a new front-end that produces a salty doclet collection). So the honest examples here are the two real bridges that ship with the theme.

If you just want to configure the theme, see Configuration and the guides instead.

The call shape

Both bridges build a salty doclet collection, assemble an options object, and call generateSite. Every field below is present on GenerateSiteOptions in index.ts — nothing is invented.

This is the TypeDoc bridge, which is ESM all the way and imports setu directly (from write-site.ts):

import salty from '@jsdoc/salty';
import { generateSite } from '@clean-jsdoc-theme/setu';

// reflections → flat doclets → a salty collection (the shape setu consumes).
const doclets = reflectionsToDoclets(project, logger);
const collection = salty.taffy(doclets);

const manifest = generateSite(collection, {
  ...(pkg ? { pkg } : {}),                         // package.json fields
  ...(readme ? { readme } : {}),                   // README HTML → home page
  ...(sources.length > 0 ? { sources } : {}),      // SourceFileInput[] → viewer pages
  ...(sectionOrder ? { sectionOrder } : {}),        // sidebar section order
  ...(menu ? { menu } : {}),                        // full sidebar menu
  ...(clubSidebarItems ? { clubSidebarItems } : {}),// prefix-group sidebar entries
});

The JSDoc bridge does the same, plus the options that only make sense from a JSDoc run — tutorials, the docs directory, doc-group ordering, and the source-link target (from publish.ts):

const manifest = generateSite(data, {
  ...(pkg ? { pkg } : {}),
  ...(readme ? { readme } : {}),
  ...(tutorialTree.length > 0 ? { tutorials: tutorialTree } : {}),
  ...(sources.length > 0 ? { sources } : {}),
  ...(sources.length > 0 && sourceLinkToComment ? { sourceLinkToComment } : {}),
  ...(docs.length > 0 ? { docs } : {}),
  ...(docGroups ? { docGroups } : {}),
  ...(defaultDocGroup ? { defaultDocGroup } : {}),
  ...(sectionOrder ? { sectionOrder } : {}),
  ...(menu ? { menu } : {}),
  ...(clubSidebarItems ? { clubSidebarItems } : {}),
});

Notice the pattern: every option is spread conditionally, so an absent feature simply isn't passed. The only required argument is the collection — both arguments to generateSite are otherwise driven by what the bridge found.

The full option surface

Every field on GenerateSiteOptions (index.ts):

What comes back, and where it goes

generateSite returns a SiteManifest — pages, nav, an optional pkg, and a content-stable buildId:

const manifest = generateSite(collection, opts);
// manifest.pages   — Page[]  (one per symbol + globals + prose + source pages)
// manifest.nav     — NavNode[] (the sidebar tree)
// manifest.buildId — string  (timestamp + content hash, for cache busting)

The manifest carries no search index field. setu's per-page bodies are what later feed search; the manifest itself is just { pages, nav, pkg?, buildId }.

The next step is always the same: hand the manifest straight to dwar.render(), which turns it into HTML. Both bridges do exactly this:

import { render } from '@clean-jsdoc-theme/dwar';

const result = await render(manifest, { theme, destination });
await writeOutputFiles(destination, result.files);

setu produced the model; dwar renders it. The two never import each other — they meet only at the SiteManifest type defined in utils.

How authored features map to setu behavior

What you write in your source comments and docs files becomes manifest structure here. A few connections worth knowing:

• @category and @order. An API symbol's @category Core/Parsing order=1 tag becomes its sidebar group (a /-path nests it: Core ▸ Parsing) and its within-group sort key. A standalone @order N positions any symbol — even an untagged @class — within its kind section. Parsed in generate-site.ts. See Structure your sidebar and Custom tags.
• README → home. Your README (rendered to HTML by JSDoc/TypeDoc) becomes the home page at slug '', via buildReadmePage. A root index.md in your docs directory overrides it.
• Docs folder → guide pages. Each Markdown/HTML file under your docs directory becomes a prose page at its clean (unprefixed) slug, grouped by its frontmatter group or its directory path, via buildDocPages. Frontmatter title / group / order / hidden are honored. See Build a guides site.
• @link / @see / @tutorial. Resolved against the link registry built in pass 2 — only targets that actually have a page or member heading resolve; the rest fall back to inert text rather than a broken anchor (link-registry.ts).

Read the source

These are the canonical, working usages — read them rather than trusting any snippet above:

• TypeDoc bridge: packages/typedoc/src/write-site.ts — builds the collection with salty.taffy, calls generateSite, hands the manifest to render.
• JSDoc bridge: packages/clean-jsdoc-theme/src/publish.ts — the publish(data, opts, tutorials) entry JSDoc invokes; collects sources, docs, and tutorials, then calls generateSite.
• The options type: packages/setu/src/index.ts

Next

• setu Overview — why setu exists and its contract boundaries.
• dwar Overview — what consumes the SiteManifest.
• Build an API reference — the end-to-end path these bridges power.