beta This component version is ready to be used but is still in active development.

Search Client Side utility

This uses Lunr.js to perform a client-side search of a site's content.

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Usage

This approach is recommended only for sites with a limited number of pages (around 500 or fewer), otherwise the client side search index can become many megabytes in size.

If your site is in a subdirectory or has other requirements, you specify any required prefix to your search URL with data-vf-search-client-side-destination-prefix="https://myprefix".

Warning: Early alpha, lot's of "to do"s

This is an early alpha. More customisation options need to be added, such as:

  • passing search parameters (boost score) to the JS
  • customising the output format
  • NJK template has hardcoded paths for vf-core

Supplying a search index

This consumes a .js file with a searchIndex object of pages, a la:

let searchIndex = {
  "pages": [
    {"id":"0", "title": "Page title", "text": "Body text of page goes here", "tags": "", "url": "/index.html"},
    ...
  ]
};

To make this index, you can utilise the ability of vf-extension to generate a search index.

  1. Making an index

To generate that JS file, if you're using a vf-eleventy based site, you may also want to make use of the vf-extensions's gulp-build-search-index.js:

require('./node_modules/\@visual-framework/vf-extensions/utils/gulp-build-search-index.js')(gulp, path, buildDestionation);

  1. Dependencies

If you use that JS you'll also need some npm dependencies:

yarn add strip-js striptags node-html-parser

  1. Tell gulp to make the index

And you should build that search index after updating your html pages, a la:

  // build search index after search page is compiled
  gulp.watch(['./build/search/index.html'], gulp.parallel('vf-build-search-index'));

  // And for your `build` task
  gulp.task('build', gulp.series(
    ...
    'eleventy:build',
    'vf-build-search-index',
    ...
  ));

  // And for your `dev` task
  gulp.task('dev', gulp.series(
    ...
    'eleventy:build',
    'vf-build-search-index',
    ...
  ));

Using search

  • You can pass a query to the search page with ?search_query=myQuery
  • The search will live update as the user enters text
  • You can enable autofocus on the search element, but should only do so if most users intend to search on the page

Variants

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HTML
<form action="/vf-core/components/vf-search-client-side/" method="GET" class="vf-form vf-form--search vf-form--search--responsive | vf-sidebar vf-sidebar--end">
  <div class="vf-sidebar__inner">
    <div class="vf-form__item | vf-search__item">
      <label class="vf-form__label vf-u-sr-only | vf-search__label" for="search_query"></label>
      <input type="search" id="search" placeholder="Enter a search query" name="search_query" class="vf-search__input | vf-form__input" data-vf-search-client-side-input data-vf-search-client-side-destination-prefix="">
    </div><button type="submit" class="vf-search__button | vf-button vf-button--primary">
      <span class="vf-button__text">Search</span>

      <svg class="vf-icon vf-icon--search-btn | vf-button__icon" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:svgjs="http://svgjs.com/svgjs" viewBox="0 0 140 140" width="140" height="140">
        <g transform="matrix(5.833333333333333,0,0,5.833333333333333,0,0)">
          <path d="M23.414,20.591l-4.645-4.645a10.256,10.256,0,1,0-2.828,2.829l4.645,4.644a2.025,2.025,0,0,0,2.828,0A2,2,0,0,0,23.414,20.591ZM10.25,3.005A7.25,7.25,0,1,1,3,10.255,7.258,7.258,0,0,1,10.25,3.005Z" fill="#FFFFFF" stroke="none" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="0"></path>
        </g>
      </svg>
    </button>
  </div>
</form>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lunr.js/2.3.8/lunr.js"></script>
<script src="/search_index.js"></script>
<div class="vf-search-client-side vf-grid | vf-content">
  <div class="results-container" data-vf-search-client-side-results>
    Loading...
  </div>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  window.onload = function() {
    vfSearchClientSide();
  };
</script>
              

Examples

Installation info

This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install vf-search-client-side with this command.

$ yarn add --dev @visual-framework/vf-search-client-side

Sass/CSS

The style files included are written in Sass. If you're using a VF-core project, you can import it like this:

@import "@visual-framework/vf-search-client-side/index.scss";

Make sure you import Sass requirements along with the modules. You can use a project boilerplate or the vf-sass-starter

Changelog

Changelog

2.0.1

  • Changed : Modified the logic to update search term in both the searchboxes (Menu and Current page)
  • https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/1859

2.0.0-alpha.2

  • Add customisable URL prefix search_client_destination_prefix.
  • Cleans up typos.
  • https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/1602

2.0.0-alpha.1

  • Accessibility: add search_client_id to configure label for and input name attributes.

2.0.0-alpha.0

  • Updates to replace v2.0.0 of vf-search--inline with vf-form--search vf-form--search--responsive

1.0.2

  • Updates to match v2.0.0 of vf-search--inline

1.0.1

  • Fixes CSS to match stylelint rules.
  • https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/1405

1.0.0

  • JS linting

1.0.0-alpha.3

  • adds support for autofocus on search input

1.0.0-alpha.2

  • Improve documentation

1.0.0-alpha.1

  • Initial prototype

Assets



File system location: components/vf-search-client-side

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