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@cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local

cmfcmf103.4kMIT1.2.0TypeScript support: included

Local / Offline Search for Docusaurus

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Offline / Local Search for Docusaurus v2+

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Offline / local search for Docusaurus v2+ that works behind your firewall.

Feature Highlights:

  • Supports multiple documentation versions
  • Supports documentation written in languages other than English
  • Highlights search results
  • Customized parsers for docs, blogs, and general pages
  • Lazy-loads the index

Search in Action

Note: We use the open source algolia/autocomplete library for the searchbox. This library is just used as the frontend, and, unlike the default Docusaurus search experience (algolia/docsearch), does not connect to any Algolia or third-party servers.

Installation

npm install @cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local

or

yarn add @cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local

Usage

Add this plugin to the plugins array in docusaurus.config.js.

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [require.resolve("@cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local")],

  // or, if you want to specify options:

  // ...
  plugins: [
    [
      require.resolve("@cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local"),
      {
        // Options here
      },
    ],
  ],
};

The following options are available (defaults are shown below):

{
  // whether to index docs pages
  indexDocs: true,

  // Whether to also index the titles of the parent categories in the sidebar of a doc page.
  // 0 disables this feature.
  // 1 indexes the direct parent category in the sidebar of a doc page
  // 2 indexes up to two nested parent categories of a doc page
  // 3...
  //
  // Do _not_ use Infinity, the value must be a JSON-serializable integer.
  indexDocSidebarParentCategories: 0,

  // Includes parent categories path in search result
  includeParentCategoriesInPageTitle: false,

  // whether to index blog pages
  indexBlog: true,

  // whether to index static pages
  // /404.html is never indexed
  indexPages: false,

  // language of your documentation, see next section
  language: "en",

  // setting this to "none" will prevent the default CSS to be included. The default CSS
  // comes from autocomplete-theme-classic, which you can read more about here:
  // https://www.algolia.com/doc/ui-libraries/autocomplete/api-reference/autocomplete-theme-classic/
  // When you want to overwrite CSS variables defined by the default theme, make sure to suffix your
  // overwrites with `!important`, because they might otherwise not be applied as expected. See the
  // following comment for more information: https://github.com/cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local/issues/107#issuecomment-1119831938.
  style: undefined,

  // The maximum number of search results shown to the user. This does _not_ affect performance of
  // searches, but simply does not display additional search results that have been found.
  maxSearchResults: 8,

  // lunr.js-specific settings
  lunr: {
    // When indexing your documents, their content is split into "tokens".
    // Text entered into the search box is also tokenized.
    // This setting configures the separator used to determine where to split the text into tokens.
    // By default, it splits the text at whitespace and dashes.
    //
    // Note: Does not work for "ja" and "th" languages, since these use a different tokenizer.
    tokenizerSeparator: /[\s\-]+/,
    // https://lunrjs.com/guides/customising.html#similarity-tuning
    //
    // This parameter controls the importance given to the length of a document and its fields. This
    // value must be between 0 and 1, and by default it has a value of 0.75. Reducing this value
    // reduces the effect of different length documents on a term’s importance to that document.
    b: 0.75,
    // This controls how quickly the boost given by a common word reaches saturation. Increasing it
    // will slow down the rate of saturation and lower values result in quicker saturation. The
    // default value is 1.2. If the collection of documents being indexed have high occurrences
    // of words that are not covered by a stop word filter, these words can quickly dominate any
    // similarity calculation. In these cases, this value can be reduced to get more balanced results.
    k1: 1.2,
    // By default, we rank pages where the search term appears in the title higher than pages where
    // the search term appears in just the text. This is done by "boosting" title matches with a
    // higher value than content matches. The concrete boosting behavior can be controlled by changing
    // the following settings.
    titleBoost: 5,
    contentBoost: 1,
    tagsBoost: 3,
    parentCategoriesBoost: 2, // Only used when indexDocSidebarParentCategories > 0
  }
}

You can now use the search bar to search your documentation.

Important: Search only works for the statically built documentation (i.e., after you ran npm run docusaurus build in your documentation folder).

Search does **not work in development (i.e., when running npm run docusaurus start).** If you want to test search locally, first build the documentation with npm run docusaurus build, and then serve it via npm run docusaurus serve.

Non-English Documentation

Use the language option if your documentation is not written in English. You can either specify a single language or an array of multiple languages. The following languages are available:

ar, da, de, en, es, fi, fr, hi, hu, it, ja, nl, no, pt, ro, ru, sv, th, tr, vi, zh

Important: For Chinese language support (zh), you also have to install the nodejieba npm package at ^2.5.0.

Documentation Versions

Documentation versions created with the official Docusaurus docs plugin are supported. The search bar defaults to the latest version (not next, but the latest version defined in versions.json) when not on a documentation page (e.g., when looking at a blog post or a static page). If the user visits a documentation page, the version is extracted from the page and search will only search the documentation of that version. The searchbar placeholder text always reflects the currently detected documentation version.

Internationalization

This plugin supports documentation using Docusaurus i18n out of the box.. Please contribute additional translations by creating a new translation file in the codeTranslations subfolder and submitting a PR.

You can also adjust translations by modifiying the translations in <yourfolder>/i18n/<locale>/code.json that start with cmfcmf/d-s-l.. Read more at: https://docusaurus.io/docs/i18n/tutorial#translate-json-files

Debugging

If building your documentation produces an error, you can build it in debug mode to figure out which page is causing it. To do so, simply set the DEBUG environment variable when building your documentation: DEBUG=1 npm run docusaurus build.

CONTRIBUTING

Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for further information.

License

MIT

changelog

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change log is automatically generated based on commit messags. See Commit Message Guidelines for more information.

1.2.0 (2024-06-09)

Features

1.1.0 (2023-04-10)

Features

Bug Fixes

  • Re-add support for using this plugin on Windows (0337ada), closes #175 #179

1.0.0 (2023-02-26)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

  • The minimum supported Docusaurus version is now v2.0.0.

Features

Bug Fixes

  • Correctly extract page titles when not specified in frontmatter, closes #146 (1f33151)
  • Do not generate .d.ts files, which break docusaurus write-translations, closes #145, #129, #163, #167 (c09cc94)
  • Fix potential error when calculating paths, closes #136 (26f1b71)
  • Resolve warning regarding render parameter in autocomplete, closes #148 (66d41e4)
  • Support Yarn pnp, closes #139 (045d534)

Other

  • Update to Docusaurus v2 (f8619b7)

0.11.0 (2022-06-12)

Bug Fixes

  • Correct alignment of search input, closes #117 (f29dc02)

chore

Features

BREAKING CHANGES

  • The default height of the search input is now 36px. Use the --aa-search-input-height CSS variable to adjust it if needed.
  • The minimum supported Docusaurus version is now v2.0.0-beta21
  • the minimum supported Docusaurus version is now v2.0.0-beta17.

0.10.0 (2022-01-28)

Features

  • Add polish translations :poland: (#95) (e947ad1)
  • support Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta.15, fixes #93 (30a6c66)

BREAKING CHANGES

  • the minimum supported Docusaurus version is now v2.0.0-beta15.

0.9.4 (2022-01-19)

Bug Fixes

  • Return EMPTY_INDEX when server responds with error. (#91) (1a4d89c)

0.9.3 (2022-01-13)

Bug Fixes

  • wrong variable when checking available documentation plugins (8b04bbf)

0.9.2 (2021-12-14)

Bug Fixes

  • support trailingSlash = false (371d60a), closes #52

0.9.1 (2021-12-14)

Bug Fixes

  • do not throw error if a search index does not exist (9a17de6), closes #85

Features

  • update @algolia/autocomplete-js to 1.5.1 (5631755)

0.9.0 (2021-12-11)

Features

  • split indexes by plugin and documentation versions (2953045)
  • support up to Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta13 (e74750f), closes #82 #83

BREAKING CHANGES

  • the minimum supported Docusaurus version is now v2.0.0-beta9.

0.8.0

  • FEAT: Support multiple docs, blogs, and pages plugins (#33)

0.7.0

  • FEAT: Infer docsPath, docsRouteBasePath, and blogRouteBasePath from Docusaurus context
  • FEAT: Make similarity tuning parameters and boosting behavior of title vs content vs parent categories configurable (#67)
  • FEAT: Align documentation version detection with DocsVersionNavbarItem
  • FIX: Correctly exclude tags pages of both docs and blogs, respect tagsBasePath if configured
  • BREAKING: Now requires Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta4 or later
  • BREAKING: Now requires at least Node.js 14
  • CLEANUP: Reorganize repository layout, use yarn workspaces

0.6.7

  • FEAT: Add support for Bahasa Indonesia (id)
  • FEAT: Support Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta7

0.6.6

  • FEAT: Support Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta5

0.6.5

  • FEAT: Add additional translations of autocomplete (Spanish, French, Japanese, and Portugese) (#56)

0.6.4

  • FIX: Re-add support for Chinese (zh)

0.6.3

  • FIX: Correctly handle trailingSlash config option (#52)
  • FEAT: Fully localized autocomplete (currently in German, English, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese), update autocomplete to 1.2.2
  • FEAT: Support Hindi for search indexing (hi)
  • FEAT: Validate plugin options (#46)

0.6.2

  • FEAT: Italian translations
  • FIX: Missing peer dependency warnings
  • FIX: Correct Docusaurus peer dependency version (#36)
  • BREAKING: Now requires Docusaurus v2.0.0-beta0

0.6.1

  • FIX: Add missing codeTranslations folder to release package

0.6.0

  • BREAKING: Now requires Docusaurus v2.0.0-alpha73
  • BREAKING: Update autocomplete.js to v1-alpha, which features an all-new design and renamed class names (#32).
  • FEAT: Use i18n system for translation of the searchbar itself, translate to German and English (#29)
    • BREAKING: To specfiy a non-default placeholder if no results are found, overwrite the newly introduced translation keys instead of .d-s-l-a .aa-dropdown-menu .aa-suggestion-empty::after { content: "No results"; }
  • FEAT: Yellow result higlighting no longer adds a parameter to the URL and vanishes on refresh (#28)
  • FIX: Support for language th

0.5.0

  • FIX: Correctly handle "/" as docsRouteBasePath and blogRouteBasePath (#21)
  • FIX: Exclude hash link "#" from HTML headings when indexing
  • FIX: Use same tokenizer that was used for indexing documents to tokenize the content of the search box
  • FEAT: Allow to specify a different separator for the tokenizer (#20)
  • FEAT: Find blog posts and static pages regardless of the currently selected documentation version (#19)
  • FEAT: For docs, optionally also index the titles of parent categories in the sidebar (#17)

0.4.0

  • BREAKING: Now requires Docusaurus v2.0.0-alpha66
  • FEAT: Upgrade to new version APIs from v2.0.0-alpha66

0.3.1

  • FIX: Search did not work in Safari (#18)

0.3.0

  • FEAT: Support versioned documentation
  • BREAKING: Renamed options
    • blogBasePath to blogRouteBasePath
    • docsBasePath to docsRouteBasePath
  • BREAKING: Now requires Docusaurus v2.0.0-alpha.59
  • FIX: Remove version badge from search index
  • FIX: Correct docs/blog/page detection logic for edge cases (e.g., /docs-foo-bar is no longer considered a documentation page)
  • FIX: Use correct plugin name
  • FIX: Japanese and Thai search should now work correctly (#12)

0.2.0

  • FEAT: Highlight search results on the page using a new highlight query parameter

0.1.3

  • FIX: <style> and <script> tags no longer break indexing (#7)

0.1.2

  • FEAT: Make search results easier to style, improve markup (#6)

0.1.1

  • FIX: Parsing of empty sections and pages
  • FIX: Parsing static pages was broken
  • FEAT: Add logging

0.1.0

  • FEAT: Support for indexing other languages than English (#3)
  • FEAT: New options to configure indexing.
  • FIX: Navigation buttons are no longer included in indexed text (#4).
  • BREAKING: Static pages are no longer indexed by default

0.0.5

  • FIX: Set different dropdown colors in dark theme.

0.0.4

  • FIX: Focus search bar after loading the index if it was previously focused.
  • FEAT: Introduce document ids to make index smaller

0.0.3

  • FIX: Lowercase all search terms before searching the index. A search term with an uppercase letter never gives any results, because the index is all lowercase.
  • FEAT: If document and section titles are equal, only display one of them in search results.

0.0.2

  • FIX: Prepend baseUrl when fetching search index.
  • FEAT: Add more fields to package.json.

0.0.1

  • Initial version