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rustdoc: Consider ways to make UI development cycle faster

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Description

EDIT: see the below comments instead https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/125991#issuecomment-2148339854 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/125991#issuecomment-2148417125


The current situation can cause mistakes:

It allows to underline a serious issue when I work on rustdoc front-end: I modify the generated file and not our main.js file, meaning that sometimes, I forget to put all the changes... Thanks for this one!

Originally posted by @GuillaumeGomez in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125779#discussion_r1626538444

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Research direction

Start by reading the two linked comments, since the issue directs work there; then inspect rustdoc's front end and the generated file versus main.js. Done means a faster UI development cycle that avoids changes being made only in generated output and prevents those changes from being missed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
documentation, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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