Docs update: manual sharding

guides/advanced/manual_sharding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Manual Sharding
+
+Advanced users can use methods located in the `Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor` module
+to manually connect shards to the gateway as well as initiate manual disconnect
+and reconnects (attempting to `RESUME` sessions where possible).
+
+You can set the `num_shards` option in your `nostrum` application config to
+`:manual` to prevent Nostrum from automatically starting shards. You should use
+the methods in the shard supervisor such as `Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.connect/2`
+to manually start shards if using this configuration option.
+
+## Reconnection example
+
+```elixir
+# On Node A
+iex> Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.connect(0, 1)
+iex> resume_info = Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.disconnect(0)
+%{shard_num: 0, ...}
+
+# On another node
+iex> Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.reconnect(resume_info)
+```
+
+Discord will perform a best effort attempt to resume the gateway from the time
+of disconnection, relaying any missed events. Resumption is not guaranteed to
+work, in the event it fails Nostrum will reconnect the shard from scratch,
+though this may mean some events are missed.

guides/intro/intro.md

@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ Apart from the `token` field mentioned above, the following fields are also supp
     should contain the total amount of shards that your bot is expected to have.
     Useful for splitting a single bot across multiple servers, but see also [the
     multi-node documentation](../advanced/multi_node.md).
-  - `:manual`: nostrum does not automatically spawn shards. You should use
-    `Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.connect/2` to spawn shards instead.
+  - `:manual`: nostrum does not automatically spawn shards. See the [Manual
+    Sharding](../advanced/manual_sharding.md) guide for more information.
 - `gateway_intents` - a list of atoms representing gateway intents for Nostrum
   to subscribe to from the Discord API. More information can be found in the
   [gateway intents](./gateway_intents.md) documentation page.

lib/nostrum/shard/supervisor.ex

@@ -145,7 +145,17 @@ defmodule Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor do
 
   @doc """
   Disconnects the shard with the given shard number from the Gateway.
-  This function returns `resume_information` given to `Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.reconnect/1`.
+
+  This function returns `t:resume_information/0` which can be provided
+  to `reconnect/1` to reconnect a shard to the gateway and (attempt) to
+  catch up on any missed events.
+
+  ### Examples
+
+  ```elixir
+  iex> Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.disconnect(4)
+  %{shard_num: 4, ...}
+  ```
   """
   @spec disconnect(shard_num()) :: resume_information()
   def disconnect(shard_num) do
@@ -165,8 +175,24 @@ defmodule Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor do
   end
 
   @doc """
-  Reconnect to the gateway using the given `resume_information`.
-  For more information about resume, please visit [the Discord Developer Portal](https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#resuming).
+  Reconnect to the gateway using the provided `t:resume_information/0`.
+
+  Resuming is performed by the gateway on a best effort basis, it is not
+  guaranteed that a resume will work (though Nostrum will handle failed attempts
+  at a resumption). If a reconnect is successful, any events received during the
+  reconnection period should be received. If the reconnect fails, events
+  received between the disconnect and re-authentication may be lost.
+
+  For more information about resuming sessions, visit
+  [the Discord Developer Portal](https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#resuming).
+
+  ### Examples
+
+  ```elixir
+  iex> resume = Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.disconnect(4)
+  %{shard_num: 4, ...}
+  iex> Nostrum.Shard.Supervisor.reconnect(resume)
+  ```
   """
   @spec reconnect(resume_information()) :: DynamicSupervisor.on_start_child()
   def reconnect(

mix.exs

@@ -70,22 +70,10 @@ defmodule Nostrum.Mixfile do
   end
 
   def extras do
-    [
-      "guides/intro/intro.md",
-      "guides/intro/api.md",
-      "guides/intro/application_commands.md",
-      "guides/intro/gateway_intents.md",
-      "guides/functionality/state.md",
-      "guides/functionality/event_handling.md",
-      "guides/functionality/voice.md",
-      "guides/advanced/pluggable_caching.md",
-      "guides/advanced/multi_node.md",
-      "guides/advanced/hot_code_upgrade.md",
-      "guides/advanced/gateway_compression.md",
-      "guides/cheat-sheets/api.cheatmd",
-      "guides/cheat-sheets/qlc.cheatmd",
-      "guides/cheat-sheets/voice.cheatmd"
-    ]
+    # We manually move the `intro.md` document to the top of the list so it
+    # remains first on the navigation sidebar
+    ["guides/intro/intro.md"] ++
+      (Path.wildcard("guides/**/*.{md,cheatmd}") -- ["guides/intro/intro.md"])
   end
 
   def groups_for_modules do