adds beta docs to learn

[bmuenzenmeyer]

Need to see if we need to update ui-components or any other aspect of what made the nav accent.
cross-ref nodejs/nodejs.org#8998

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[Copilot]

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The new NavBar entry uses a label i18n key that is not defined/used elsewhere in this repo and is inconsistent with existing text fields, likely causing an incorrect or missing link label.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new top-level navigation link to the Node.js Beta documentation site in site.json, intended to surface “Beta Docs” prominently in the Learn site NavBar.

Changes:

• Add a new NavBar item linking to https://beta.docs.nodejs.org/
• Mark the new link as opening in a new tab and visually accented

File summaries

File	Description
site.json	Adds a new navigation entry for the Beta docs site in the main NavBar list.

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The new nav item uses label instead of text, which is likely to render the link with no visible text given how navItems are passed through.

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site.json:21

• This new nav entry uses label, but the rest of site.json navigation items use text, and components/Navigation/index.jsx passes navItems={navigation} directly into @node-core/ui-components NavBar (no label->text mapping). As a result, this item will likely render with an empty label. Use text (or add mapping code, but that would be a separate change).

      "label": "components.containers.navBar.links.betaDocs",

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The new nav entry uses label instead of text, which likely prevents the Beta Docs link text from rendering with the current NavBar integration.

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site.json:23

• components/Navigation passes navigation directly into @node-core/ui-components/Containers/NavBar, which expects each item to provide a text field (as the other entries in site.json do). Using label here will likely result in the Beta Docs item rendering without any visible text (and the i18n key isn’t resolved in this repo).

      "link": "https://beta.docs.nodejs.org/",
      "label": "components.containers.navBar.links.betaDocs",
      "target": "_blank",
      "accent": true

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[avivkeller]

Suggested change

	"label": "components.containers.navBar.links.betaDocs",
	"text": "Beta Docs",