docs: new design for the documentation site (#5934)

* docs: new design for the documentation site

Apply the brand to the Material for MkDocs site: Inter and JetBrains Mono
served by the site (upright and real italic), brand colours, blue header band
with the syntax pattern, wordmark in the header, new home page (hero, cards,
animated feature tour), 404 page, polish for tabs, search, footer, focus
rings, tables and code blocks, and theme features (code copy, previous/next
footer, TOC follow, search suggestions).

Draw the number railroad diagram, the parser callback events and the iterator
illustrations as inline SVGs that follow the light and dark scheme. The
generator scripts are in docs/mkdocs/scripts/figures; the feature slideshow
(json-light.svg, json-dark.svg, replacing json.gif on the home page) is built
by docs/mkdocs/scripts/slideshow. Decision nodes in five flowcharts become
hexagons, which need far less room.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: add figures, table captions and a macro chooser

- Figures with numbered captions: SAX stepper, json_view layout and edit
  stepper, exception map, JSON pointer and patch walkers, QA pipeline,
  scaling and binary size charts, roadmap lanes, release timeline,
  integration decision tree and namespace builder
- Table captions (nj-table-caption) on 9 pages
- Compile times: modules and PCH charts, filesystem section, re-measured
  Figure 1, links between features/modules.md and compile_times.md
- Interactive macro chooser for features/arbitrary_types.md
- Link check: exclude URLs that answer the plugin with 400/401/419 or are
  dead (customers.md)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: macro chooser generates adl_serializer for non-default-constructible types

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: cross-link concept pages and API pages in See also sections

Add See also links in both directions between the concept pages (features,
home, integration) and the API pages, write API links in code font, give every
entry a comment after a dash, and show the callback event figure on the parser
callbacks page.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: address review comments on the new design

- Home: add a "Latest release" button
- Sponsors: update the list and group it by tier
- Features: list all feature pages on the index page
- Releases: add highlights per release, link the 4.0 roadmap, add the first commit to the timeline
- Exceptions: prefix all example messages with the exception name
- API: no code font for format names in the See also links of the to_/from_ pages
- Merge Patch: show the document before, the patch, and the result
- Replace "--" with typographic dashes, mark external links with an icon, center Mermaid diagrams

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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# JSON for Modern C++
![JSON for Modern C++](images/json.gif)
JSON for Modern C++ is a header-only C++11 library that turns JSON into a first-class C++ data type, using the operator
magic of modern C++ so that creating, reading, and modifying JSON values feels as natural as it does in languages like
Python. The whole library is available as a single header, `json.hpp`, with no dependencies, no subproject, and no
complex build system to set up; a companion header, `json_fwd.hpp`, provides forward declarations to keep compile times
down, `<nlohmann/json_literals.hpp>` holds the user-defined string literals on their own, and
`<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>` adds zero-copy views and editable documents. See
[header-only integration](integration/index.md) for details. It is heavily unit-tested with 100% code
coverage, checked with Valgrind and the Clang Sanitizers for memory leaks, and continuously fuzz-tested by Google
OSS-Fuzz.
## Quick start
Add the single header to your project and use the library like this:
```cpp
#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
using nlohmann::json;
int main()
{
// parse a JSON string
json j = json::parse(R"({"happy": true, "pi": 3.141})");
// access and modify values
j["name"] = "Niels";
j["list"] = {1, 0, 2};
// read a value into a C++ variable and use it
double pi = j["pi"].get<double>();
std::cout << "2 * pi = " << 2 * pi << '\n';
// serialize with an indent of 4 spaces
std::cout << j.dump(4) << '\n';
}
```
Get the library by copying the single header [`json.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases) from the
releases page into a directory `nlohmann` on your include path, or by installing it with a package manager:
```sh
brew install nlohmann-json # Homebrew
vcpkg install nlohmann-json # vcpkg
```
```cmake
find_package(nlohmann_json 3.12.0 REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(myproject PRIVATE nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json)
```
See [Integration](integration/index.md) for CMake in detail, all supported package managers (Conan, Meson, Bazel,
Conda, and more), and pkg-config.
## Explore the documentation
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :octicons-rocket-24:{ .lg .middle } __Features__
---
Creating, parsing, accessing, and serializing JSON values, JSON Pointer/Patch, binary formats, zero-copy views,
and more.
Creating, parsing, accessing, and serializing JSON values, converting your own C++ types, JSON Pointer/Patch/Merge
Patch, binary formats, zero-copy views, and more.
[:octicons-arrow-right-24: Features](features/index.md)
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</div>
!!! info "Unreleased changes"
This documentation is built from the `develop` branch and may describe changes that are not part of a release
yet. Their version numbers are followed by an <span class="unreleased-version">unreleased</span> badge; see
[Releases](home/releases/index.md) for what shipped in each version.
The library is licensed under the [MIT License](home/license.md). The source code, issue tracker, and discussions
are on [GitHub](https://github.com/nlohmann/json).
![JSON for Modern C++](images/json-light.svg#only-light)
![JSON for Modern C++](images/json-dark.svg#only-dark)