Background

Current documentation displays no metadata about the article itself. This is problematic for two reasons

1. No info about created time/updated time means not knowing if documentation is stale/up-to-date
2. No info about the author means now knowing who to ask for further explanation about the content

Proposed changes

Since we use git to version control all documentation, we can extract this data and provide it in the documentation itself.

This implementation consists of extracting git information about the documentation using a webpack function, which executes at "compile-time", recursively scraping the documentation, then spawning child-processes to execute git shell commands on those files on the host's machine. This data is then collected into a map of path -> git info which can be accessed by components on the client side to display the data.

Notes

Since the nature of this implementation could be platform specific and dangerous, this branch shall be left unmerged until further user testing is completed on a variety of operating systems.