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Next Routes Readme

Next Routes Readme is a cool utility that helps generate short and brief markdown documentation for Next App Routes (Next 13+). It automates the process of extracting information from your App Route files and creates well-structured markdown documentation.

Features

Automatically extracts information from API route files.
Generates markdown documentation with details about each API route.
Provides information on HTTP methods, route implementations, dependencies, and more.

Installation

npm install next-routes-readme

Usage

npx next-routes-readme --dir=<path-to-your-app-folder>

https://nextjs.org/docs/app

Replace <path-to-api-folder> with the path to the folder containing your API routes.

Example Output. See file with more examples: ROUTES.md

Here is an example of the generated documentation for an API route:

---
# Route 1: [examples/app/route.ts](examples/app/route.ts)

**Implementation**: `async function POST(request: NextRequest)`  
**HTTP Method**: `POST`

**Variables**:

1. 
      - **Value**: `const {
      severity,
      message,
      functionName,
      gcpProject,
      serviceAccountEmail,
      serviceAccountKey,
      env,
    } = await request.json();`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L5](examples/app/route.ts#L5)

**Conditionals**:

1. 
      - **Value**: `if (
      !severity ||
      !message ||
      !functionName ||
      !gcpProject ||
      !serviceAccountEmail ||
      !serviceAccountKey ||
      !env
    ) {
      return NextResponse.json({ error: 'Invalid Request' }, { status: 500 });
    }`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L15](examples/app/route.ts#L15)

**Comments**:

1. 
      - **Value**: `// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L27](examples/app/route.ts#L27)

**Errors**:

1. 
      - **Value**: `NextResponse.json({ error: 'Invalid Request' }, { status: 500 })`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L24](examples/app/route.ts#L24)

2. 
      - **Value**: `catch (error) {
    console.error('Error logging to GCP:', error);
    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'Internal Server Error' }, { status: 500 });
  }`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L31](examples/app/route.ts#L31)

3. 
      - **Value**: `NextResponse.json({ error: 'Internal Server Error' }, { status: 500 })`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L33](examples/app/route.ts#L33)

**Query Params**:

*None*

**Route Params**:

*None*

**Dependencies**:

1. 
      - **Value**: `import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';`
      - **Line**: [examples/app/route.ts#L1](examples/app/route.ts#L1)