chore: deprecate documentation js based docs and generation code

Author: abose

gulpfile.js/index.js

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ const webserver = require('gulp-webserver');
 const { src, dest, series } = require('gulp');
 // removed require('merge-stream') node module. it gives wired glob behavior and some files goes missing
 const zip = require('gulp-zip');
-const jsDocGenerate = require('./jsDocGenerate');
 const Translate = require("./translateStrings");
 const copyThirdPartyLibs = require("./thirdparty-lib-copy");
 const minify = require('gulp-minify');
@@ -350,24 +349,6 @@ function releaseProd() {
     });
 }
 
-function cleanDocs() {
-    return del(['docs/generatedApiDocs']);
-}
-
-function createJSDocs() {
-    return src('src/**/*.js')
-        // Instead of using gulp-uglify, you can create an inline plugin
-        .pipe(jsDocGenerate.generateDocs())
-        .pipe(dest('docs/generatedApiDocs'));
-}
-
-function generateDocIndex() {
-    return new Promise(async (resolve)=>{ // eslint-disable-line
-        await jsDocGenerate.generateDocIndex('docs/generatedApiDocs');
-        resolve();
-    });
-}
-
 function translateStrings() {
     return new Promise(async (resolve)=>{ // eslint-disable-line
         await Translate.translate();
@@ -750,7 +731,7 @@ exports.releaseWebCache = series(makeDistWebCache);
 exports.serve = series(exports.build, serve);
 exports.zipTestFiles = series(zipTestFiles);
 exports.serveExternal = series(exports.build, serveExternal);
-exports.createJSDocs = series(cleanDocs, createJSDocs, generateDocIndex);
+exports.serveExternal = series(exports.build, serveExternal);
 exports.translateStrings = series(translateStrings);
 exports.default = series(exports.build);
 exports.patchVersionBump = series(patchVersionBump);

gulpfile.js/jsDocGenerate.js

@@ -209,8 +209,6 @@ let copyThirdPartyLibs = series(
     copyFiles.bind(copyFiles, ['node_modules/@floating-ui/dom/dist/floating-ui.dom.umd.min.js'],
         'src/thirdparty'),
     copyLicence.bind(copyLicence, 'node_modules/@floating-ui/core/LICENSE', 'floating-ui'),
-    // documentation
-    copyLicence.bind(copyLicence, 'node_modules/documentation/LICENSE', 'documentation'),
     // jasmine
     copyFiles.bind(copyFiles, ['node_modules/jasmine-core/lib/jasmine-core/**/*'],
         'test/thirdparty/jasmine-core/'),