Hey Listen!

This repository is no longer necessary. Vitepress has offline search built in as of alpha 66.

Vitepress Simple Search

Vitepress needs better offline search. Let's make it simple and quick.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for offline search for getting the general idea implemented.

Features

Utilizes front-matter for page titles.
Auto-strips content of extra tags.
Auto-reads all markdown documents, and creates search data based on that.
Ability to change baseURL for doc pathing.
Ability to change regexp for content stripping and searching content.
Ability to use quotes for stricter search results in-search.
Option to change docs path.
Option to ignore specific files or folders based on partial naming.

Required

Make sure all of your markdown documents have title in their front matter.

Example:

---
title: 'My Cool Document'
---

# {{ $frontmatter.title }}

Content, and everything else...

Installing

npm i vitepress-plugin-simple-search

Add the plugin

Create a file in docs called vite.config.js or vite.config.ts.

// docs/vite.config.js
import { SimpleSearch } from "vitepress-plugin-simple-search";
import { defineConfig } from "vite";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [SimpleSearch()],
});

Additional Options

These can be passed through the SimpleSearch function.

export interface Options {
    /**
     * Base URL to use for content link replacement.
     *
     * @type {string}
     * @memberof Options
     */
    baseURL?: string;

    /**
     * Pathway to docs folder.
     * Must be an absolute path.
     * Defaults to 'docs' folder.
     *
     * @type {string}
     * @memberof Options
     */
    docsPath?: string;

    /**
     * A list of strings of partial file names or folders to ignore and not add to search.
     *
     * @type {Array<string>}
     * @memberof Options
     */
    partialsToIgnore?: Array<string>;

    /**
     * Used as a regex content remover for non-matching characters.
     * Setting this to undefined turns off all content stripping.
     * May have unintended side effects.
     *
     * @type {RegExp | undefined}
     * @memberof Options
     */
    regexForContentStripping?: RegExp | undefined;
}

Example

SimpleSearch({ baseURL: '/my-repo', regexForContentStripping: undefined });