Problems with search

[matcornic]

Problems with search

[matcornic]

Hey @fgiorlando

Go check this https://matcornic.github.io/hugo-learn-doc/basics/configuration/ and this https://matcornic.github.io/hugo-learn-doc/basics/installation/

[params]
  # Prefix URL to edit current page. Useful to give opportunity to people to create merge request for your doc.
  # See the config.toml file from this documentation site to have an example.
  editURL = ""
  # Author of the site, will be used in meta information
  author = ""
  # Description of the site, will be used in meta information
  description = ""
  # Shows a checkmark for visited pages on the menu. Default to false
  showVisitedLinks = false
  # Automatically generates prev and next arrows
  autoNav = false
  # Activate search. Don't forget to generate the JSON index file (go check get started page)
  search = false

Basically, you have to:

1. Activate search by setting search = true parameter, but inside a params "section" (Ex: https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-learn-doc/blob/master/config.toml#L7)
2. Generate json index. Instead of using grunt, you could use hugo-lunr project directly : https://matcornic.github.io/hugo-learn-doc/basics/installation/#enable-search-functionality (Ex: index NPM script in https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-learn-doc/blob/master/package.json)

You should find everything you need on the documentation. And if you need a real life working example, the repo is here.

[fgiorlando]

Thanks for the tips, I have now put the search config in a [params] section and the search box appears.
I am a little new to using node so I have what may be an obvious question: when I install hugo-lunr with npm install lunr-hugo, it installs fine. However, I can't run lunr-hugo as I get the error: -bash: lunr-hugo: command not found.
Do I have to set some path settings?

[matcornic]

npm install -g lunr-hugo, and it should work.

[fgiorlando]

thanks @matcornic, that fixed it!
Sorry I know it was pretty obvious, I'm a bit of a node nube!
I'm impressed by how fast hugo is, I had previously built exactly the same site with grav and it's so much faster now