diff --git a/.jsdoc.js b/.jsdoc.js
index 8fa631f6dea..bb6e766f69a 100644
--- a/.jsdoc.js
+++ b/.jsdoc.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module.exports = {
   plugins: ['plugins/markdown', 'jsdoc-region-tag'],
   source: {
     excludePattern: '(^|\\/|\\\\)[._]',
-    include: ['src'],
+    include: ['build/src'],
     includePattern: '\\.js$',
   },
   templates: {
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ module.exports = {
   markdown: {
     idInHeadings: true,
   },
-};
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 37e42d7ed39..90852ff62c5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     "prepare": "npm run compile",
     "test": "c8 mocha build/test",
     "predocs": "npm run build-tools",
-    "docs": "node build/src/generator/docs",
+    "docs": "npm run compile && node build/src/generator/docs",
     "predocs2": "npm run compile",
     "docs-extract": "node --max-old-space-size=8192 ./node_modules/@microsoft/api-extractor/bin/api-extractor run --local --verbose",
     "docs-md": "node --max-old-space-size=8192 ./node_modules/@microsoft/api-documenter/bin/api-documenter markdown --input-folder build/docs --output-folder docs",
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
     "googleapis-common": "^7.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@compodoc/compodoc": "1.1.23",
     "@types/execa": "^2.0.0",
     "@types/mocha": "^9.0.0",
     "@types/mv": "^2.1.0",
@@ -81,6 +80,9 @@
     "gaxios": "^6.0.3",
     "gts": "^5.0.0",
     "js-green-licenses": "^4.0.0",
+    "jsdoc": "^4.0.0",
+    "jsdoc-fresh": "^3.0.0",
+    "jsdoc-region-tag": "^3.0.0",
     "linkinator": "^4.0.0",
     "mocha": "^9.2.2",
     "mv": "^2.1.1",
diff --git a/src/generator/docs.ts b/src/generator/docs.ts
index 85f2211ca67..d3ce59987b1 100644
--- a/src/generator/docs.ts
+++ b/src/generator/docs.ts
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import {promisify} from 'util';
 import Q from 'p-queue';
 
-const srcPath = path.join(__dirname, '../../../src');
+const rootPath = path.join(__dirname, '../../..');
+const srcPath = path.join(rootPath, 'src');
 const apiPath = path.join(srcPath, 'apis');
 const templatePath = path.join(srcPath, 'generator/templates/index.html.njk');
-const docsPath = path.join(__dirname, '../../../docs');
+const docsPath = path.join(rootPath, 'docs');
 const indexPath = path.join(docsPath, 'index.html');
 
 export const gfs = {
@@ -58,10 +59,9 @@ export async function main() {
       .add(() =>
         gfs.execa(process.execPath, [
           '--max-old-space-size=8192',
-          './node_modules/.bin/compodoc',
-          `src/apis/${dir}`,
-          '-d',
-          `./docs/${dir}`,
+          './node_modules/.bin/jsdoc',
+          '-c',
+          '.jsdoc.js',
         ])
       )
       .then(() => {