Have you read the Contributing Guidelines on issues?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines on issues.

Description

If you use index pages and your sidebar contains a link it would be nice if you could either:

• Add a description to the link by doing something like:
  {
  type: 'link',
  label: 'Facebook', // The link label
  href: 'https://facebook.com', // The external URL
  description: 'Some description'
  },

or

• Fetch the data from the linked page if possible. This may be very specific to our use case but we link from one docs plugin to another in our Wiki as we can't always use relative links. So it would be nice if the index page could somehow get the frontmatter from the linked page.

Wdyt?

Has this been requested on Canny?

No. I can't login there because of some unknown error

Motivation

We would like to work more with index pages but we use a lot of links in the sidebar and that just don't really look nice.

API design

No response

Have you tried building it?

I didn't try to build it myself. Not sure what the best way would be yet. So maybe let's discuss first what would be possible.

Self-service

• I'd be willing to contribute this feature to Docusaurus myself.