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Docs: Automate the Options heading in rule docs pages #5058

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Right now, rules pages manually include their options according to a light spattering of tests (#4367). But the part of the Options section that includes the opening sentence(s) & code block description of the options can be generated using the rule's schema and/or code source.

Some rules, such as https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/adjacent-overload-signatures, have no options. They're the easier case.

Other rules, such as https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/array-type, have an options type, some ancillary type alias(es), and a const defaultOptions: Options = { ... };.

There are a few reasonable starting possibilities for how we could automate the creation of those options docs:

  • Base them purely on the rule's meta.schema[0]
    • Upside: simplest, and most portable (we could make a utility library for it!)
    • Downside: some values might get duplicated (would we have to add logic to dedup?)
  • Base them on the types & interfaces used in the rule's source file
    • Upside: matches the internal implementation closer
    • Downside: do we want it to match the internal implementation? and, is much more complicated
  • Some combination of both

My proposal would be to base them purely on the rule's meta and see how that looks.

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https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/*

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