How to Create Automated Documentation for Atom Text Editor��Snippets

While building an Laravel snippet plugin for the Atom text editor, I thought it would be helpful to produce human-friendly documentation for all the snippets contained in my plugin. This post is a quick tutorial demonstrating how to parse CSON files and produce documentation for your Atom plugin.

Atom���s snippets use CSON (CoffeeScript-Object-Notation), which is a readable enough format, but I wanted to combine all snippets into a generated, human-readable markdown document.

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