Support for symbolic linked .md files

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• I have read the Contributing Guidelines on issues.

Motivation

This issue is kind of a continuation from:

• Add support for loading symbolic links to md files #3579
• And Error when using symlinked docs folder: Module parse failed: Assigning to rvalue #3272 (comment)

I have a repository with many helm charts, docker images, and whatnot. I like to keep a README.md for each of these little sub-projects, right inside each folder.

That's so when people open the directories in GitHub, they will have the README rendered.

And also, I'd like to show them in my documentation portal.

For now, I'm creating symbolic links to all these READMEs into my website/docs dir, so that they get parsed by Docusaurus too. For that to work, I need to use the WebPack resolve.symlinks: false trick.

And it works great, except it does not work when the Docusaurus project is installed with pnpm install (and also deno install, which works the same way as pnpm).

So, it would be great if Docusaurus had direct support for reading symlinked .md files.

Self-service

• I'd be willing to do some initial work on this proposal myself.