cli: docusaurus serve

[slorber]

🚀 Feature

Not all Docusaurus users are familiar with Docusaurus, and frontend SPA tooling in general.

Some Docusaurus things only work for the production build (like the redirects plugin), yet we don't really explain how to test this production build locally, we only explain how to deploy to various hosting solutions.

We should offer an easy way for the users to test the production build locally.

There are many ways to host a frontend locally, that will work more or less well with Docusaurus. We should offer an official way, and write docs for it, so that the user does not need to figure out which solution to try, otherwise we'll end up with users losing time, using overkill http servers like Apache etc...

So, I think we need a cli docusaurus serve that, by default, would serve the build folder (but could be made configurable like dir/port etc).

The serve lib, maintained by Vercel, has worked nicely for me.

Related:

• Docusaurus v2 doesn't allow for "mypagename.html" links #2697 (comment)

[anshulrgoyal]

one of the user also complained about same on discord

[anshulrgoyal]

I will take this issue