Linking to external library documentation with TypeDoc

Question

I have a TypeScript project, and I'm using TypeDoc to generate documentation for it. In my project I am using an external library that has its own existing documentation. In the TypeDoc output for my project I want to link the reader to the documentation for the external library without having to manually insert a URL.

The closest I've come to a solution is placing double brackets in the code comments around what I want to link to, like this:

/** I want to link to something called [[Foo]] */

But this doesn't seem to work for types in an external library.

Is this possible to achieve?

Answer 1

Yes you can use following syntax by putting text between square brackets [] and url between parenthesis () .

[Text to be displayed](URL)

For example: Link to an npm module called pg-structure .

[pg-structure](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-structure)

I also usually link to related paragraph by copying from npm link icon left to title. (See icon left to Synopsis title in example picture below)