feat(plugin-algolia): add plugin-algolia and optimize some DX on customizing Search

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@rspress/plugin-algolia

Based on docsearch, this plugin replaces Rspress's built-in search with algolia.

Installation

npm add @rspress/plugin-algolia -D

Usage

First, add the following configuration to your config file:

// rspress.config.ts
import path from 'path';
import { defineConfig } from 'rspress';
import { pluginAlgolia } from '@rspress/plugin-algolia';

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [pluginAlgolia()],
  search: false, // Disable the default search index generation
});

Then override the Search component with an algolia-supported search box via Custom Theme.

// theme/index.tsx
import { Search as PluginAlgoliaSearch } from '@rspress/plugin-algolia/runtime';

const Search = () => {
  return (
    <PluginAlgoliaSearch
      docSearchProps={{
        appId: 'R2IYF7ETH7', // Replace with your own Algolia appId
        apiKey: '599cec31baffa4868cae4e79f180729b', // Replace with your own Algolia apiKey
        indexName: 'docsearch', // Replace with your own Algolia indexName
      }}
    />
  );
};
export { Search };
export * from 'rspress/theme';

Configuration

The plugin accepts an options object with the following type:

interface Options {
  verificationContent?: string;
}

verificationContent

• Type: string | undefined
• Default: undefined

Used for meta tag verification when creating algolia crawler. Format: <meta name="algolia-site-verification" content="YOUR_VERIFICATION_CONTENT" />. Refer to Create a new crawler - algolia

SearchProps

The SearchProps type from @rspress/plugin-algolia/runtime is as follows:

import type { DocSearchProps } from '@docsearch/react';

type Locales = Record<
  string,
  { translations: DocSearchProps['translations']; placeholder: string }
>;
type SearchProps = {
  /**
   * @link https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/api
   */
  docSearchProps?: DocSearchProps;
  locales?: Locales;
};

docSearchProps

• Type: import('@docsearch/react').DocSearchProps
• Default: undefined

docSearchProps will be directly passed to the <DocSearch /> component in @docsearch/react. For specific types, please refer to docsearch documentation.

locales

• Type:

type Locales = Record<
  string,
  { translations: DocSearchProps['translations']; placeholder: string }
>;

• Default: {}

For customizing translated text in different languages, Rspress provides the following translated text, which can be imported through import.

export const ZH_LOCALES: Locales = {
  zh: {
    placeholder: '搜索文档',
    translations: {
      button: {
        buttonText: '搜索',
        buttonAriaLabel: '搜索',
      },
      modal: {
        searchBox: {
          resetButtonTitle: '清除查询条件',
          resetButtonAriaLabel: '清除查询条件',
          cancelButtonText: '取消',
          cancelButtonAriaLabel: '取消',
        },
        startScreen: {
          recentSearchesTitle: '搜索历史',
          noRecentSearchesText: '没有搜索历史',
          saveRecentSearchButtonTitle: '保存至搜索历史',
          removeRecentSearchButtonTitle: '从搜索历史中移除',
          favoriteSearchesTitle: '收藏',
          removeFavoriteSearchButtonTitle: '从收藏中移除',
        },
        errorScreen: {
          titleText: '无法获取结果',
          helpText: '你可能需要检查你的网络连接',
        },
        footer: {
          selectText: '选择',
          navigateText: '切换',
          closeText: '关闭',
          searchByText: '搜索提供者',
        },
        noResultsScreen: {
          noResultsText: '无法找到相关结果',
          suggestedQueryText: '你可以尝试查询',
          reportMissingResultsText: '你认为该查询应该有结果？',
          reportMissingResultsLinkText: '点击反馈',
        },
      },
    },
  },
} as const;

Rspress provides Chinese translation by default, and you can customize translated text in different languages ​​through locales.

• Example:

import { Search as PluginAlgoliaSearch, ZH_LOCALES } from '@rspress/plugin-algolia/runtime';

<PluginAlgoliaSearch locales={ZH_LOCALES} />
// or
<PluginAlgoliaSearch
  locales={{
    en: {
      placeholder: 'Search Documentation',
      translations: {
        button: {
          buttonText: 'Search',
          buttonAriaLabel: 'Search',
        }
      }
    },
    ...ZH_LOCALES,
  }}
/>

Algolia crawler config

Here is an example config based on what this site uses:

new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  maxDepth: 10,
  startUrls: ['https://rspress.dev'],
  sitemaps: ['https://rspress.dev/sitemap.xml'],
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://rspress.dev/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'doc_search_rspress_pages',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://rspress.dev/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '',
              defaultValue: 'Documentation',
            },
            lvl1: '.rspress-doc h1',
            lvl2: '.rspress-doc h2',
            lvl3: '.rspress-doc h3',
            lvl4: '.rspress-doc h4',
            lvl5: '.rspress-doc h5',
            lvl6: '.rspress-doc pre > code', // if you want to search code blocks, add this line
            content: '.rspress-doc p, .rspress-doc li',
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
          recordVersion: 'v3',
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    doc_search_rspress_pages: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang'],
      attributesToRetrieve: ['hierarchy', 'content', 'anchor', 'url'],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
    },
  },
});

Distinguish search results based on i18n

You can achieve internationalized search results by combining Runtime API with docSearchProps.

Here's an example using docSearchProps.searchParameters:

// theme/index.tsx
import { useLang } from 'rspress/runtime';
import { Search as PluginAlgoliaSearch } from '@rspress/plugin-algolia/runtime';

const Search = () => {
  const lang = useLang();
  return (
    <PluginAlgoliaSearch
      docSearchProps={{
        appId: 'R2IYF7ETH7',
        apiKey: '599cec31baffa4868cae4e79f180729b',
        indexName: 'docsearch',
        searchParameters: {
          facetFilters: [`language:${lang}`],
        },
      }}
    />
  );
};
export { Search };
export * from 'rspress/theme';

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Can we disable it in plugin logic?