docs-parser.js

const html2md = require("html-to-md");
const fs = require("fs");

// empty stuff
fs.rmSync(`${__dirname}/docs/md/`, { force: true, recursive: true });
fs.mkdirSync(`${__dirname}/docs/md/`);

// i've drowned in alcohol. just get 'jsdoc-to-markdown' working instead of trying to remove whitespaces from the shittily done html

const files = fs
  .readdirSync(`${__dirname}/docs/html/`)
  .filter((file) => file.endsWith(".html"));
// TODO: remove empty newlines from html
let md = files.map((htmlname) => {
  return {
    name: htmlname.slice(0, htmlname.indexOf(".html")),
    html: fs
      .readFileSync(`${__dirname}/docs/html/${htmlname}`)
      .toString("utf-8"),
  };
});
md = md.map((file) => {
  while (file.html.match(/\n\n/g) !== null) {
    console.log(`replacing in ${file.name}`);
    file.html = file.html
      .replace(/\n{2,}/g, "\n")
      .replace(/( )+(\n)+/g, "")
      .trim();
  }
  file.md = html2md(file.html.replaceAll(".html", ".md"));
  return file;
});

md.forEach((file) => {
  fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/docs/md/${file.name}.md`, file.md);
});

// TODO: remove whitespaces at the start of newlines