Remote/External Content Directory via srcDir

[Karlstens]

Hey all,

Is there a recommended workflow for having a vitePress project in a local directory, that can reference another folder location external to the project directory for the markdown content?

Reading through VitePress doco, I'm attempting to use;

export default { srcDir: './src' }

https://vitepress.dev/reference/site-config#srcdir

Where instead of hosting my markdown data within .\docs, I'm attempting to use a shared folder from OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox of a folder named 'cloud-docs' - for example;

srcDir: 'C:/Users/%USERPROFILE%/OneDrive/cloud-docs'

Unfortunately, using the exact same mirrored md files within this cloud location, the pages fail to render during the docs:dev, and a build attempt returns many broken links that aren't otherwise there when (the same) markdown files are stored within the project docs directory.

I've tried creating a symbolic-link/junction to that same cloud directory to simulate those markdown files being local to the project, for example;

.\docs\cloud-docs\

srcDir: './cloud-docs/'

But still encountered the same/similar dev and build issues. The problem looks to be that vitepress simply won't view those cloud-doc markdown files relatively to the project.

In our user case, the authors are saving their markdown files into a cloud service, and I'm hoping to avoid copying that data from the cloud folders into the project folders - as would prefer on set of markdown docs to work with.

I've searched for similar posts but couldn't find any - so am not sure if this is a bug or a feature request. 😅