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@qmonnet qmonnet commented Apr 3, 2025

Mkdocs is able to detect broken links or files ommitted from the "nav" configuration, etc. By default, it reports them at the "INFO" level. Instead, we can have "mkdocs build" report them as warnings. To do so, we follow the documentation's "recommended settings for most sites (maximal strictness)" (see docs)

Once "mkdocs build" emits warnings for these issues, we can use the strict mode (-s|--strict) to have the build error out if anything looks wrong. Let's use this in CI to detect broken links, for example.

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Doesn't pass CI yet, because we currently have a few broken links in the API reference. See githedgehog/fabric#809.

Mkdocs is able to detect broken links or files ommitted from the "nav"
configuration, etc. By default, it reports them at the "INFO" level.
Instead, we can have "mkdocs build" report them as warnings. To do so,
we follow the documentation's "recommended settings for most sites
(maximal strictness)" (see link).

Once "mkdocs build" emits warnings for these issues, we can use the
strict mode (-s|--strict) to have the build error out if anything looks
wrong. Let's use this in CI to detect broken links, for example.

Link: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#validation
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
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I brought this up to @Frostman since he is looking at modifying this area of the code / docs.

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that looks super useful, is it possible to ignore the files with generated docs to not wait for fixing it?

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qmonnet commented Apr 15, 2025

that looks super useful, is it possible to ignore the files with generated docs to not wait for fixing it?

I don't think there is an easy way to selectively disable validation for specific files, at least I couldn't find any.

There are few broken links in right now, only 4 as far as I remember, so maybe not too hard to fix. I looked into it some time ago, see githedgehog/fabric#809 for more context.

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