site search

[Maxhodges]

what are some strategies to getting search working on a static generated site? i.e. is it possible to allow people to search my blog if it's a static site? How would that work?

[ivanoats]

I'm working on LunrJS integration. Therepo is on https://bitbucket.org/aerobatic/gatsby-lunr and hope to have a blog post on it by end of week.

[Maxhodges]

thanks mate! LunrJS looks pretty good. Do let us know when your blog post is up!

[MoOx]

You might find interesting stuff in this issue MoOx/phenomic#142

[Alxandr]

I have working search (though no propper UI yet) using elasticlunr here: https://github.com/Alxandr/alxandr.me/blob/feature/search/plugins/@alxandr/gatsby-plugin-search/gatsby-node.js

[erlend-sh]

An officially supported strategy for search in Gatsby would be wonderful. I'm not aware of a "1.1" or "2.0" roadmap, but if there was such a thing I'd vote for "Search" to be on there.

@bvaughn was asking around about Gatsby site search a while back, and I replied:

I'd love to see a plugin for @fergiemcdowall's norch [and/or search-index]

I know great search can be achieved with services like Algolia or Elastic, but it'd be nice to have a fairly feature-rich self-hosted option, static or otherwise.

[bvaughn]

FWIW I still have plans to build a plug-in for js-worker-search at some point.

[DanielRuf]

Any updates on this? Please use GitHub repos so we can collaborate.

[andrew-codes]

I turned some earlier work from this thread into a gatsby plugin NPM package; npm and repo. I'd like some feedback on it, though. I feel like the gatsby-config.js was not intended to have imperative code like in the example of the readme. If this is true, I'm thinking of refactoring the plugin to use sub-plugins to index the content.

Major shout out to @ivanoats's and @Alxandr's examples. I most definitely followed in their footsteps.

Thoughts?

[KyleAMathews]

Adding code to the config is certainly allowed as it's a normal node.js module, especially small amounts of code like in your readme. If the plugin could require more code than that, I'd encourage consumers to out the code in a separate module.

[andrew-codes]

I believe that is the extent of code required for the config file. I will submit a PR shortly to the docs's page listing the above plugin on the list of community supported plugins. Thanks!

[fergiemcdowall]

Heres an article about how to make a searchable static site with search-index: http://www.gordonburgett.net/post/2017/07_making_a_searchable_static_site/

[KyleAMathews]

Closing this issue as it's a problem that'll be solved via plugins rather than in Gatsby core.