feat: restore legacy anchor alias to preserve old links

Fixes: #697

Author: shivxmsharma

src/generators/legacy-html/utils/__tests__/slugger.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+'use strict';
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { describe, it } from 'node:test';
+
+import { createLegacySlugger } from '../slugger.mjs';
+
+describe('createLegacySlugger', () => {
+  it('prefixes with api stem and uses underscores', () => {
+    const slugger = createLegacySlugger();
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      slugger.getLegacySlug('File System', 'fs'),
+      'fs_file_system'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('replaces special characters with underscores', () => {
+    const slugger = createLegacySlugger();
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      slugger.getLegacySlug('fs.readFile(path)', 'fs'),
+      'fs_fs_readfile_path'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('strips leading and trailing underscores', () => {
+    const slugger = createLegacySlugger();
+    assert.strictEqual(slugger.getLegacySlug('Hello', 'fs'), 'fs_hello');
+  });
+
+  it('prefixes with underscore when result starts with non-alpha', () => {
+    const slugger = createLegacySlugger();
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      slugger.getLegacySlug('123 test', '0num'),
+      '_0num_123_test'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('deduplicates with a counter for identical titles', () => {
+    const slugger = createLegacySlugger();
+    assert.strictEqual(slugger.getLegacySlug('Hello', 'fs'), 'fs_hello');
+    assert.strictEqual(slugger.getLegacySlug('Hello', 'fs'), 'fs_hello_1');
+    assert.strictEqual(slugger.getLegacySlug('Hello', 'fs'), 'fs_hello_2');
+    assert.strictEqual(slugger.getLegacySlug('World', 'fs'), 'fs_world');
+  });
+});

src/generators/legacy-html/utils/buildContent.mjs

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { u as createTree } from 'unist-builder';
 import { SKIP, visit } from 'unist-util-visit';
 
 import buildExtraContent from './buildExtraContent.mjs';
+import { createLegacySlugger } from './slugger.mjs';
 import getConfig from '../../../utils/configuration/index.mjs';
 import {
   GITHUB_BLOB_URL,
@@ -20,12 +21,14 @@ import { QUERIES, UNIST } from '../../../utils/queries/index.mjs';
  * @param {import('unist').Parent} parent The parent node of the current node
  * @returns {import('hast').Element} The HTML AST tree of the heading content
  */
-const buildHeading = ({ data, children, depth }, index, parent) => {
+const buildHeading = ({ data, children, depth }, index, parent, legacySlug) => {
   // Creates the heading element with the heading text and the link to the heading
   const headingElement = createElement(`h${depth + 1}`, [
     // The inner Heading markdown content is still using Remark nodes, and they need
     // to be converted into Rehype nodes
     ...children,
+    // Legacy anchor alias to preserve old external links
+    createElement('span', createElement(`a#${legacySlug}`)),
     // Creates the element that references the link to the heading
     // (The `#` anchor on the right of each Heading section)
     createElement(
@@ -220,6 +223,8 @@ const buildMetadataElement = (node, remark) => {
  * @param {import('unified').Processor} remark The Remark instance to be used to process
  */
 export default (headNodes, metadataEntries, remark) => {
+  const legacySlugger = createLegacySlugger();
+
   // Creates the root node for the content
   const parsedNodes = createTree(
     'root',
@@ -229,7 +234,13 @@ export default (headNodes, metadataEntries, remark) => {
       const content = structuredClone(entry.content);
 
       // Parses the Heading nodes into Heading elements
-      visit(content, UNIST.isHeading, buildHeading);
+      visit(content, UNIST.isHeading, (node, index, parent) => {
+        const legacySlug = legacySlugger.getLegacySlug(
+          node.data.text,
+          entry.api
+        );
+        buildHeading(node, index, parent, legacySlug);
+      });
 
       // Parses the Blockquotes into Stability elements
       // This is treated differently as we want to preserve the position of a Stability Index

src/generators/legacy-html/utils/slugger.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const notAlphaNumerics = /[^a-z0-9]+/g;
+const edgeUnderscores = /^_+|_+$/g;
+const notAlphaStart = /^[^a-z]/;
+
+/**
+ * Deduplicates legacy slugs by appending an incremented counter.
+ * Adapted from maintainer suggestion to preserve `id` on first occurrence.
+ *
+ * @param {Record<string, number>} counters
+ * @returns {(id: string) => string}
+ */
+export const legacyDeduplicator =
+  (counters = { __proto__: null }) =>
+  id => {
+    counters[id] ??= -1;
+    const count = ++counters[id];
+    return count > 0 ? `${id}_${count}` : id;
+  };
+
+/**
+ * Creates a stateful slugger for legacy anchor links.
+ *
+ * @returns {{ getLegacySlug: (text: string, apiStem: string) => string }}
+ */
+export const createLegacySlugger = () => {
+  const deduplicate = legacyDeduplicator();
+
+  return {
+    /**
+     * Generates a legacy-style slug to preserve old anchor links.
+     *
+     * @param {string} text The heading text
+     * @param {string} apiStem The API file identifier (e.g. 'fs', 'http')
+     * @returns {string} The legacy slug
+     */
+    getLegacySlug: (text, apiStem) => {
+      const id = `${apiStem}_${text}`
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .replace(notAlphaNumerics, '_')
+        .replace(edgeUnderscores, '')
+        .replace(notAlphaStart, '_$&');
+
+      return deduplicate(id);
+    },
+  };
+};