Keep temporal.io links in the same tab across the site - #5361
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Docusaurus treats every absolute URL as external and opens it in a new tab, with no special case for other temporal.io properties. temporal.io itself only treats a link as external if its hostname isn't temporal.io or a *.temporal.io subdomain — so links between Temporal properties (docs.temporal.io, learn.temporal.io, community.temporal.io, etc.) stay in the same tab there. This mirrors that logic across docs.temporal.io. Adds src/utils/links.ts (isExternalHref, ported from temporal.io) and applies it to: - MDX prose links (src/theme/MDXComponents.tsx) - GridCard, PatternCards, SdkOverviewCards, which each had their own partial or hardcoded notion of "external" (PatternCards even had `dotnet.temporal.io` etc. marked `external: true` by hand) - The navbar: NavbarItem/ComponentTypes now registers a full custom 'default' item component (TemporalNavbarLink), since Docusaurus's own NavbarNavLink decides the new-tab/icon behavior internally and isn't overridable via props. This also gives us an owned seam for future top-nav changes, alongside the existing custom-askAI item. - The footer (Footer/LinkItem) and both logos (Logo, Footer/Logo), same reasoning — the icon/rel decisions are baked into Docusaurus's defaults, not exposed as overridable props, so those are swizzled rather than wrapped. Verified in the browser: temporal.io-family links (learn.temporal.io, community.temporal.io, trust.temporal.io, the nav/footer logos, etc.) now stay in-tab with no external icon, while genuinely external links (GitHub, YouTube, partner integration docs, t.mp, pkg.go.dev) keep target="_blank" and the icon. Desktop nav active-states, the mobile hamburger menu, and dropdown-item rendering all still work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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temporal.io only treats a link as external — and only then opens it in a new tab — if its hostname isn't
temporal.ioor a*.temporal.iosubdomain. docs.temporal.io had no equivalent logic: Docusaurus's defaults treat every absolute URL as external, so links tolearn.temporal.io,community.temporal.io,trust.temporal.io, etc. all opened in a new tab, and several components had their own partial or hand-maintained version of "is this external" that had already drifted (e.g.PatternCardshaddotnet.temporal.iomarkedexternal: trueby hand).src/utils/links.ts(isExternalHref), a direct port of temporal.io's own check.src/theme/MDXComponents.tsx).GridCard,PatternCards, andSdkOverviewCardsto derive "external" from the href via the shared check instead of their own ad hoc logic, and drops the now-deadexternal: truefields fromdocs/references/api-reference.mdxanddocs/security.mdx.TemporalNavbarLink, registered as thedefaulttype inNavbarItem/ComponentTypes, alongside the existingcustom-askAIitem) since Docusaurus's own navbar link renderer decides the new-tab/icon behavior internally and doesn't expose it as an overridable prop. This also gives us an owned seam for future top-nav changes.Footer/LinkItem) and both logos (Logo,Footer/Logo) — those are swizzled (fully reimplemented, matching Docusaurus's own logic) rather than thinly wrapped, since the icon/rel decisions aren't exposed as props either.Test plan
yarn build(runs automatically via this repo's pre-commit hook) — succeeds.vale --config .vale-ci.ini docs/references/api-reference.mdx docs/security.mdx— 0 errors/warnings.learn.temporal.iostay in-tab;chatgpt.com/claude.ai/GitHub links are unaffected.PatternCards/SdkOverviewCards:dotnet.temporal.io,php.temporal.io,python.temporal.io,ruby.temporal.io,typescript.temporal.iostay in-tab;pkg.go.dev,javadoc.io,docs.rs,t.mpstill open a new tab.learn.temporal.io) and "Code Exchange" (temporal.io/code-exchange) stay in-tab with no external icon; active-state highlighting and the mobile hamburger menu still work; dropdown-item rendering path unchanged.learn.temporal.io,community.temporal.io,trust.temporal.io, etc. lost the new-tab/icon;github.com/youtube.comkept both.https://temporal.io) no longer open a new tab and carry notarget/rel.🤖 Generated with Claude Code