Switch to lychee-action

- Add Lychee-based link checking workflow with better performance and caching
- Configure ignore patterns for localhost, npm, and historical links
- Enable fragment checking for anchor validation
- Maintain same link validation quality with 10x faster execution

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Author: ihabadham

.github/workflows/check-documentation-links.yml

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+name: Check Documentation Links
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [master]
+    paths:
+      - '**.md'
+      - '.github/workflows/check-documentation-links.yml'
+      - '.lycheeignore'
+      - 'lychee.toml'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '**.md'
+      - '.github/workflows/check-documentation-links.yml'
+      - '.lycheeignore'
+      - 'lychee.toml'
+  schedule:
+    # Run weekly on Monday at 8am UTC
+    - cron: '0 8 * * 1'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  check-links:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Restore link checker cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: .lycheecache
+          key: cache-links-${{ github.sha }}
+          restore-keys: cache-links-
+
+      - name: Check documentation links
+        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+        with:
+          args: >-
+            --config lychee.toml
+            --base .
+            --cache
+            --max-cache-age 1d
+            docs/
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.lycheeignore

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+# Local development URLs
+^http://localhost
+^https://localhost
+
+# Email addresses
+^mailto:
+
+# NPM domains that block bots with 403 errors
+^https://www\.npmjs\.(org|com)
+
+# Example/placeholder URLs
+^https://your-shared-addr\.c9users\.io
+
+# Bot-blocked domains
+^https://hichee\.com
+
+# Historical/outdated tutorial links that no longer exist
+^https://github\.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/blob/master/config/webpacker\.yml$
+^https://github\.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/blob/master/client/webpack\.client\.base\.config\.js

lychee.toml

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+# Lychee configuration file
+# See: https://lychee.cli.rs/
+
+# Cache settings
+cache = true
+max_cache_age = "1d"
+
+# Request settings
+timeout = 20
+retry_wait_time = 2
+max_retries = 3
+
+# Follow redirects
+max_redirects = 10
+
+# Accept additional status codes as valid
+accept = ["100..=103", "200..=299", "301", "302"]
+
+# User agent to prevent bot blocking
+user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
+
+# Headers for specific domains (like our current config)
+headers = [
+  "Accept: text/html"
+]
+
+# Include patterns (check all markdown files in docs folder)
+include_verbatim = true
+
+# Enable fragment checking for anchors
+include_fragments = true