Beyond Missing Exports: Building an Early Garbage Collector for Webpack’s TypeDoc AST (opens in new tab)

Introduction Great documentation relies on an unbroken chain of references. As I'm responsible for the API Markdown Generation Phase, one of my tasks was to import internal types and interfaces that were missing from the generated documentation because they weren't explicitly exported. The initial thought was simple: drop in typedoc-plugin-missing-exports and let it resolve the missing links. However, integrating a plugin into a massive codebase is rarely a plug-and-play operation. It turned ...