In some cases, negative sidebar positions can be useful for reversing
the sorting order with minimal maintenance overhead. For example, a docs
folder with changelogs for historical versions should be sorted in
reverse chronological order. This is easy to do for semantic version
numbers by converting them into a negative numerical representation,
e.g. 11.5.1 -> -110501.
The alternative is to make the first version start with a large position
number (e.g. 9999) and decrement it for each version. However, this
requires referring to older versions to get the current sequence number,
thus increasing maintenance overhead. It also makes the number less
intuitive and more prone to error.
Negative sidebar positions work great for this purpose, so make the
front matter validator allow them again as #4796 broke this use case.
* sidebar_label should be used to compute next/previous button texts, as documented.
* improve docs frontmatter doc
* use a little bit of destructuring
* make number prefix parsing logic configurable
* Make numberPrefixParser configurable + rename frontmatter + avoid parsing date/version patterns by default
* add more tests
* more test cases
* POC of autogenerated sidebars
* use combine-promises utility lib
* autogenerated sidebar poc working
* Revert "autogenerated sidebar poc working"
This reverts commit c81da980
* POC of auto-generated sidebars for community docs
* update tests
* add initial test suite for autogenerated sidebars + fix some edge cases
* Improve autogen sidebars: strip more number prefixes in folder breadcrumb + slugs
* fix typo!
* Add tests for partially generated sidebars + fix edge cases + extract sidebar generation code
* Ability to read category metadatas file from a file in the category
* fix tests
* change position of API
* ability to extract number prefix
* stable system to enable position frontmatter
* fix tests for autogen sidebar position
* renamings
* restore community sidebars
* rename frontmatter position -> sidebar_position
* make sidebarItemsGenerator fn configurable
* minor changes
* rename dirPath => dirName
* Make the init template use autogenerated sidebars
* fix options
* fix docusaurus site: remove test docs
* add _category_ file to docs pathsToWatch
* add _category_ file to docs pathsToWatch
* tutorial: use sidebar_position instead of file number prefixes
* Adapt Docusaurus tutorial for autogenerated sidebars
* remove slug: /
* polish the homepage template
* rename _category_ sidebar_position to just "position"
* test for custom sidebarItemsGenerator fn
* fix category metadata + add link to report tutorial issues
* fix absolute path breaking tests
* fix absolute path breaking tests
* Add test for floating number sidebar_position
* add sidebarItemsGenerator unit tests
* add processSidebars unit tests
* Fix init template broken links
* windows test
* increase code translations test timeout
* cleanup mockCategoryMetadataFiles after windows test fixed
* update init template positions
* fix windows tests
* fix comment
* Add autogenerated sidebar items documentation + rewrite the full sidebars page doc
* add useful comment
* fix code block title
* extract createExcerpt code in separate file + add bad test
* almost working markdown parsing refactor
* complete parseMarkdownString refactor
* fix tests
* fix blog test issue
* fix docusaurus utils imports
