Document React <components /> in JSON format

react-docgen is a highly customizable library that extracts information from React (opens in a new tab) components and returns this information in a structured machine-readable format from which documentation can be generated.

It uses Babel (opens in a new tab) to parse the source into an AST and provides methods to process this AST to extract the desired information. The output / return value is a JSON blob / JavaScript object.

It provides a default implementation for React components defined via React.createClass, ES2015 class definitions (opens in a new tab) or functions (stateless components).