Freecodecamp: MDN and External tip links not displaying

[dhcodes]

The MDN links and other help links do not show up on the beta site.

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Regular site:

Beta site:

[BerkeleyTrue]

@dhcodes Thanks for catching this. You don't have to use the issue template if it doesn't fit the issue, though.

[dhcodes]

I'll take a stab at this assuming we still plan to have MDN links on the site.

[systimotic]

@dhcodes Did you make any progress on this?

[raisedadead]

Refer : https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/issues/12067#issuecomment-269818773

Opening up to the community.

[dhcodes]

I'd like to raise a few questions about this. Having looked at the hint structure, I think we should make some changes.

1. The hint currently accepts only plain-text whereas most of the MDN resources are links.
2. The hint generates a toast to which we could add an action link, but I wonder if using a dropdown on the hint button might not be a better approach.
3. Alternatively, if we could limit the number of hints on each exercise to 1 hint, we could do away with the toast and have a one-click hint button to open the resource in a new tab.

Thought on any of this?

[systimotic]

@dhcodes Good suggestions 👍 I'm not really sure what the hints are supposed to be like. I believe the idea is that they should be like the hints on the forum. Should we close this in favour of https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/13460?

[dhcodes]

Whoa. Hadn't seen that issue. Thanks @systimotic. Closing this is fine as long as we reference the MDN links needing to be added to staging in that other issue. 👍

[dhcodes]

Closing in favor of #13460