Update from code changes: document mint dev --disable-prefetch - #6764
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Summary
Documents the new
mint dev --disable-prefetchflag, which disables navigation prefetching in the local preview. This flag helps very large documentation sites avoid slow page loads caused by many background prefetches compiling at the same time. Added a dedicated section in the preview guide and an entry in the CLI command reference.Triggered by: https://github.com/mintlify/mint/pull/9540
Changes
cli/preview.mdx: New "Disable navigation prefetching" section explaining when and how to use the flag.cli/commands.mdx: Added--disable-prefetchto themint devflag table.Note
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Documentation-only changes with no runtime or API impact.
Overview
Documents
mint dev --disable-prefetch, which turns off navigation prefetching in the local preview so very large sites are not slowed by many pages compiling in the background.Adds a Disable navigation prefetching section to the preview guide (when to use it, example command, tradeoff vs on-demand compilation) and a
--disable-prefetchrow in themint devflag table. The same updates are mirrored in Spanish, French, and Chinese CLI docs.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 73de440. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.