Hugo live search using Fuse.js and Mark.js

This is not a standalone theme. This is a Hugo theme component.

To use this component,

1. Add this to your site's TOML config file:

   [module]
     [[module.imports]]
       path = "github.com/kaushalmodi/hugo-search-fuse-js"
   

2. Run hugo mod tidy in your main site directory. The main site repo needs to be a Hugo module as well (it needs to have its own go.mod). To make it one, run hugo mod init <your site url or any unique string> in your site repo before you do this step.

3. Create content/search.md with layout parameter set to "search", and output parameter set to ["html", "json"]. The content or body of this search.md is not used by the search.html template which is part of this theme component.

   Here is an example search.md:

   +++
   title = "Search"
   layout = "search"
   outputs = ["html", "json"]
   [sitemap]
     priority = 0.1
   +++
   

Requirements

You need to install the latest version of Go from https://go.dev/doc/install because this theme component requires hugo mod .. commands to work.

This update on switch to using Hugo Modules was last tested with Hugo v0.92.0.

1. Your main theme must be structured using base template and blocks, and
2. The base template needs to define main and footer blocks (shown in that previous link).

If the main theme does not meet these requirements, you will need to edit the search.html partial to make search work. You can find it in layouts/_default/search.html in this component.

What if the main theme does not have baseof.html?

You have two options:

1. Edit the search.html to make it fit your theme.
2. Upgrade the theme to use the new "base template and blocks" approach.

What if the main theme has baseof.html, but doesn't have the main and/or footer blocks?

It's very easy to add those blocks without breaking your existing theme.

To add the main block, add this to your baseof.html at the appropriate place:

{{ block "main" . }}{{ end }}

And similarly add the below if the footer block is missing:

{{ block "footer" . }}{{ end }}

For an example, see the baseof.html snippet in Hugo docs.

Credits

• Search functionality by fuse.js.
• Keyword highlighting by mark.js.
• Initial Hugo implementation by @eddiewebb in this gist.
• Hugo theme component packaging by @kaushalmodi.
• jQuery removal and IE polyfill integration by @lpar.
• IE compatibility polyfills:
  • Promises
  • Fetch
  • URLSearchParams
  • Template and fragment API
  • Node.remove