doc: make minor fixes to contributing guides

PR-URL: #41966
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>

doc/contributing/maintaining-the-build-files.md

@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ There are three main build files that may be directly run when building Node.js:
   create platform-dependent build files. Its output is usually in one of these
   formats: Makefile, MSbuild, ninja, or XCode project files (the main
   Makefile mentioned below is maintained separately by humans). For a detailed
-  guide on this script, see [configure](#configure).
+  guide on this script, see [configure][].
 * `vcbuild.bat`: A Windows Batch Script that locates build tools, provides a
-  subset of the targets available in the [Makefile](#makefile), and a few
+  subset of the targets available in the [Makefile][], and a few
   targets of its own. For a detailed guide on this script, see
   [vcbuild.bat](#vcbuildbat).
 * `Makefile`: A Makefile that can be run with GNU Make. It provides a set of
   targets that build and test the Node.js binary, produce releases and
   documentation, and interact with the CI to run benchmarks or tests. For a
-  detailed guide on this file, see [Makefile](#makefile).
+  detailed guide on this file, see [Makefile][].
 
-On Windows `vcbuild.bat` runs [configure](#configure) before building the
+On Windows `vcbuild.bat` runs [configure][] before building the
 Node.js binary, on other systems `configure` must be run manually before running
 `make` on the `Makefile`.
 
@@ -58,3 +58,5 @@ maintained by humans. This is not usually run on Windows, where
   of this option.
 
 [GYP]: https://gyp.gsrc.io/docs/UserDocumentation.md
+[Makefile]: #makefile
+[configure]: #configure

doc/contributing/maintaining-types-for-nodejs.md

@@ -1,21 +1,19 @@
 # Maintaining types for Node.js
 
-While JavaScript is an untyped language, there are a number of complementary
-technologies like [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) and
-[Flow](https://flow.org/) which allow developers to use types within their
-JavaScript projects. While many people don't use types, there are enough
-who do that the project has agreed it's important to work towards having
-[suitable types for end-users](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/contributing/technical-priorities.md#suitable-types-for-end-users).
+While JavaScript is a weakly-typed language, there are some complementary tools
+like [TypeScript][] and [Flow][], which allow developers to annotate the source
+code of their JavaScript projects. While many people don't annotate their code,
+or make use of annotations at all, there are enough who do that the project has
+agreed it's important to work towards having [suitable types for end-users][].
 
 ## High level approach
 
 There are a number of ways that types could be maintained for Node.js ranging
 from shipping them with the Node.js runtime to having them be externally
 maintained.
 
-The different options were discussed as part of the
-[next-10](https://github.com/nodejs/next-10/blob/main/meetings/summit-nov-2021.md#suitable-types-for-end-users)
-effort and it was agreed that maintaining them externally is the best approach.
+The different options were discussed as part of the [next-10][] effort and it
+was agreed that maintaining them externally is the best approach.
 Some of the advantages to this approach include:
 
 * Node.js maintainers do not need to be familiar with any given type
@@ -34,22 +32,22 @@ The agreement was that the ideal flow would be as follows:
 
 When you run `make doc` the canonical markdown files used to
 document the Node.js APIs in the
-[doc/api](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/doc/api)
+[doc/api][]
 directory are converted to both an `.html` file and a `.json` file.
 
 As part of the regular build/release process both the `html` and
-`json` files are published to [nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/docs/).
+`json` files are published to [nodejs.org][].
 
 The generator that does the conversion is in the
-[tools/doc](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/tools/doc)
+[tools/doc][]
 directory.
 
 ## Markdown structure
 
 The constraints required on the markdown files in the
-[doc/api](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/doc/api) directory
+[doc/api][] directory
 in order to be able to generate the JSON files are defined in the
-[documentation-style-guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/README.md#documentation-style-guide).
+[documentation-style-guide][].
 
 ## Planned changes (as of Jan 1 2022)
 
@@ -61,3 +59,12 @@ afterwards.
 There is an ongoing effort to add additional markdown constraints and
 then update the flow in order to be able to generate a better
 JSON output.
+
+[Flow]: https://flow.org/
+[TypeScript]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
+[doc/api]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/HEAD/doc/api
+[documentation-style-guide]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/HEAD/doc/README.md#documentation-style-guide
+[next-10]: https://github.com/nodejs/next-10/blob/HEAD/meetings/summit-nov-2021.md#suitable-types-for-end-users
+[nodejs.org]: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/
+[suitable types for end-users]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/HEAD/doc/contributing/technical-priorities.md#suitable-types-for-end-users
+[tools/doc]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/HEAD/tools/doc