docusaurus-lunr-search

Offline Search for Docusaurus V2

Demo Website

Sample

Prerequisites

worker_thread is needed, suggested node version > 12.X For older version of node use docusaurus-lunr-search version 2.1.0 (npm i [email protected])

How to Use ?

Install this package

npm i docusaurus-lunr-search  --save

Then run npm install to update, build, and link the packages

npm install

Then run docusaurus swizzle

npm run swizzle docusaurus-lunr-search SearchBar -- --danger

Add the docusaurus-lunr-search plugin to your docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {
  // ...
    plugins: [require.resolve('docusaurus-lunr-search')],
}

Then build your Docusaurus project

npm run build

Serve your application

npx http-server ./build

Note: Docusaurus search information can only be generated from a production build. Local development is currently not supported.

Language options

module.exports = {
  // ...
    plugins: [[ require.resolve('docusaurus-lunr-search'), {
      languages: ['en', 'de'] // language codes
    }]],
}

Supports all the language listed here https://github.com/MihaiValentin/lunr-languages

Other options

excludeRoutes

You can exclude certain routes from the search by using this option:

module.exports = {
  // ...
    plugins: [
    [require.resolve('docusaurus-lunr-search'), {
        excludeRoutes: [
            'docs/changelogs/**/*', // exclude changelogs from indexing
        ]
    }]
  ],
}

indexBaseUrl

Base url will not indexed by default, if you want to index the base url set this option to true

module.exports = {
  // ...
    plugins: [
        [require.resolve('docusaurus-lunr-search'),
            {
                indexBaseUrl: true
            }
        ]
    ],
}

Thanks to algolia/docsearch.js, I modified it to create this search component

And thanks cmfcmf, I used the code from his library docusaurus-search-local for multi-language support.