[cdcabrera]

Description

This PR resolves several interrelated build-lifecycle race conditions, catalog collisions, and unbuilt content issues in @patternfly/patternfly-doc-core. Specifically, it addresses:

1. Unawaited Markdown Conversion Race: Markdown-to-MDX transformation was previously triggered without await inside Astro's collection loader (src/content.config.ts), causing collection discovery to race against active file conversion on disk.
2. apiIndex.json Dual-Producer Overwrite: Astro prerenders src/pages/apiIndex.json.ts into dist/docs/apiIndex.json. However, cli/cli.ts executed a post-build copyFile step that copied dist/apiIndex.json (the unrendered template) over dist/docs/apiIndex.json, destroying the prerendered catalog output.
3. Concurrent Static Route Disk Collisions: Parallel static path evaluations (text.ts, examples/[example].ts) invoked writeApiIndex() concurrently without synchronization, causing intermittent disk write collisions while swallowing errors.
4. Content Entry Glob Resolution & Type Safety: Added deterministic glob path resolution and validation for local directories and node_modules packages, added fail-fast validation for missing documentation sources, and fixed TypeScript compiler error TS7023 in findPackage.
5. Script Guardrails: Redirected start:astro and build:astro scripts to route through the CLI pipeline, routing these script aliases through the MDX transformation lifecycle.

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Cross-Facet Impact & Side-Effects Analysis

In addition to resolving the core API catalog drops, these changes affect and stabilize several key areas across the repository:

• HTML Documentation Website (Positively Affected):
  • Previous Risk: Because convertToMDX() ran unawaited inside src/content.config.ts, static HTML page generation ([...page].astro, [tab].astro) suffered from intermittent missing markdown sections or empty tab content when Astro read files before they finished compiling.
  • Outcome: Markdown conversion is awaited in the CLI before Astro initializes, ensuring a larger percentage of documentation pages, markdown bodies, and component tabs render more reliably.
• CLI Tooling & Developer Ergonomics (Positively Affected):
  • Fail-Fast Path Validation: resolveContentEntryGlob now checks for local folder existence (existsSync) and resolves npm packages from node_modules. If a configured base directory or package cannot be resolved, the CLI immediately throws a clear, actionable error (Unable to resolve documentation content...) rather than silently generating incomplete builds.
  • TypeScript Safety: Added explicit return type : string | null to findPackage in cli/createCollectionContent.ts, preventing compiler error TS7023 in strict TypeScript environments.
  • Script Guardrails: Redirecting start:astro and build:astro helps developers or CI runners minimally avoid accidentally bypassing the CLI transformation lifecycle and produce empty builds.
• Component Props & AST Docgen Extraction (Unmodified):
  • Prop extraction (generateProps(), tsDocGen, and dist/props.json) runs cleanly after MDX transformation and before Astro prerendering. Embedded component props tables (<PropsTable />, <PropsTables />) continue to function without changes to component schemas.
• Design Tokens, CSS & Icons (Unaffected & Verified):
  • Custom property extraction (extractReactTokens.ts, <CSSTable />) and icon catalogs (iconsIndex.json.ts) operate independently and are completely untouched. All token and icon unit tests continue to pass.

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Detailed Changes & Rationale

1. src/content.config.ts

• Removal: Removed the unawaited convertToMDX(${base}/${pattern}) call and its unused import from defineContent().
• Rationale: Astro's defineContent() runs during collection discovery. Triggering asynchronous disk writes without awaiting them created non-deterministic builds where Astro loaded partially converted or missing files. Content preparation now lives exclusively in the CLI before Astro initializes.

2. cli/cli.ts

• Removal: Removed the post-build copyFile(apiIndexPath, docsApiIndexPath) step from buildProject().
• Rationale: Eliminates the dual-producer collision. Astro's prerendered /docs/apiIndex.json is now the sole authoritative artifact.
• Additions:
  • In buildProject() and start, awaits transformMDContentToMDX(verbose) before Astro starts.
  • Added fail-fast validation: throws an explicit error if a configured documentation package or base path cannot be resolved.

3. cli/createCollectionContent.ts

• Changes:
  • Implemented and exported resolveContentEntryGlob(contentEntry, configDir, repoRootDir, verbose?) to resolve and validate local base paths (with existsSync) and node_modules package paths.
  • Added explicit : string | null return type annotation to recursive findPackage (resolves TS7023).

4. src/pages/apiIndex.json.ts

• Changes: Replaced disk read getApiIndex() with dynamic generateApiIndex(), ensuring Astro generates the complete index from live collection data during prerendering (matching component-index.json.ts).

5. src/utils/apiIndex/generate.ts

• Changes:
  • Added in-flight promise coalescing (indexWriteInFlight: Promise<ApiIndex> | null) to generateAndWriteApiIndex(), ensuring concurrent route calls share a single file write.
  • Updated writeApiIndex() to log console.error and re-throw write errors (throw error).

6. package.json

• Changes: Updated "start:astro" to "npm run start:cli" and "build:astro" to "npm run build && astro check".
• Rationale: Because markdown-to-MDX transformation was moved out of Astro's collection loader into the CLI pre-build step (eliminating collection loader race conditions), invoking raw astro dev or astro check && astro build directly bypasses content transformation and results in missing documentation pages. Aligning these script aliases ensures they execute through the required CLI lifecycle.

7. Unit Tests

• cli/__tests__/createCollectionContent.test.ts: Added unit tests for resolveContentEntryGlob testing local folder anchoring, missing directory null fallback, and node_modules package resolution.
• src/utils/__tests__/componentIndex.test.ts: Added concurrency unit test proving parallel calls to generateAndWriteApiIndex() coalesce into a single file-system write.

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How to Confirm & Verify This Work

Follow these steps to test the build pipeline, run the local API server, and verify the generated endpoints:

Step 1: Run the Unit Test Suites

Verify all unit tests pass, including the new glob resolution and concurrency coalescing tests:

npm test

Expected: 38/38 test suites pass (400 tests).

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Step 2: Test the Production Build

Run the standard build workflow (compiles CLI and runs Astro build):

npm run build

What to check:

1. Build Completion: The build should complete successfully without unhandled promise rejections or TypeScript errors.
2. Verify dist/docs/apiIndex.json Integrity: Inspect the generated static API index to confirm it contains active component examples and was not overwritten by an empty template:

   node -e '
     const index = require("./dist/docs/apiIndex.json");
     console.log("Versions:", index.versions);
     console.log("Example keys count:", Object.keys(index.examples || {}).length);
     console.log("Button React examples:", index.examples["v6::components::button::react"]);
   '

   Expected: index.examples contains component keys (such as v6::components::button::react) populated with example names and titles rather than empty arrays.

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Step 3: Run the Local Dev / API Server (Astro - Port 4321)

Start the local server using the standard CLI runner:

npm run dev
# Or: npm run start:cli

What to check (via browser or curl):

• API Index:

  curl -s http://localhost:4321/apiIndex.json | head -n 30

• Component Index:

  curl -s http://localhost:4321/api/component-index.json | head -n 30

• Live Examples Endpoint (e.g. Button):

  curl -s http://localhost:4321/api/v6/components/button/react/examples

  Expected: Returns a JSON array of live examples (e.g. ButtonPrimary, ButtonSecondary, etc.) with full MDX/code payloads.

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Step 4: Test Static Output Preview (Cloudflare Wrangler - Port 8788)

Preview the built artifacts in dist/docs/ using the Cloudflare Pages emulator:

npm run preview
# Runs 'wrangler pages dev', binding by default to port 8788

What to check:

• API Index:

  curl -s http://localhost:8788/apiIndex.json | head -n 30

• Component Index:

  curl -s http://localhost:8788/api/component-index.json | head -n 30

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Content entries now resolve relative to the configuration directory or their installed package. If an entry cannot be found, the CLI reports an error identifying it and suggesting what to check.
  • API index generation now handles concurrent requests consistently, and write failures are reported as errors.
• Build and Development
  • The development command now runs through the project CLI. Build checks run after the build completes.

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Walkthrough

The CLI resolves configured content globs and converts content before Astro loads collections. API-index generation now shares concurrent work and propagates write failures. The API-index endpoint uses generateApiIndex, and the package scripts use updated command ordering.

Changes

Content preparation and API index

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve content entry globs cli/createCollectionContent.ts, cli/__tests__/createCollectionContent.test.ts	The new resolver handles local paths relative to the config directory and package paths under node_modules. Tests cover resolved paths and unavailable targets.
Integrate content conversion with Astro cli/cli.ts, src/content.config.ts, package.json	The CLI resolves content entries before conversion in the build and start flows. Astro collection setup no longer performs conversion. The package scripts update their command sequence.
Update API-index generation and access src/utils/apiIndex/generate.ts, src/pages/apiIndex.json.ts, src/utils/__tests__/componentIndex.test.ts, cli/cli.ts	API-index generation shares an in-flight promise and rethrows write failures. The endpoint uses generateApiIndex. Tests cover concurrent calls and an updated example title. The post-build copy of apiIndex.json was removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: wise-king-sullyman

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3963f

Valid content may be missing from Windows builds. Normalize the conversion glob paths before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main changes: fixing race conditions and preventing conflicting API index producers. It is concise and directly related to the pull request.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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- Line 54: Normalize both resolved glob patterns to forward slashes before
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