doc: mention quicker way to build docs

`make doc-only` skips the process of building Node, which speeds
things up considerably for new contributors.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/52937
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <marcoippolito54@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ulises Gascón <ulisesgascongonzalez@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
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@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ The Node.js API documentation is generated by an in-house tooling that resides
within the [tools/doc](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/tools/doc)
directory.
The build process (using `make doc`) uses this tooling to parse the markdown
files in [doc/api](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/doc/api) and
generate the following:
The build process (using `make doc` or `make doc-only`) uses this tooling to
parse the markdown files in [`doc/api/`][] and generate the following:
1. Human-readable HTML in `out/doc/api/*.html`
2. A JSON representation in `out/doc/api/*.json`
@ -302,3 +301,5 @@ mutate the data and appends it to the final JSON object.
For a more in-depth information we recommend to refer to the `json.mjs` file as
it contains a lot of comments.
[`doc/api/`]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/doc/api