Suggestion: Link each mention of a React API to the reference docs
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Description
I'm new to React and just started reading the documentation.
I noticed that references to the API are not links, just plain text. It would be helpful if they were actual links to the API.
Example: On this page https://reactjs.org/docs/rendering-elements.html it says:

The yellow API reference should actually be a link to the ReactDOM.render(), meaning a link to https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom.html#render.
This helps me a lot because I can easily discover the complete reference of that function, the complete list and description of the parameters, function behaviors, different possible usage, etc.
As I go through the documentation and concepts, I can quickly go back and forth between concepts and API reference. It's much quicker to have links I can open in a new tab, instead of manually searching in the API reference every time.
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the rendering-elements documentation page named in the issue and locate the plain-text ReactDOM.render() reference. Review the surrounding documentation for other API mentions that need the same treatment; done means those references link to the corresponding API reference pages.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100