Integrate Docsy With the Search Module

Integrate Docsy With the Search Module

This guide shows how to integrate the Hugo Docsy theme with the search module.

Requirements

Prepare Your Site

In this guide, we take the Docsy example site as an example.

1git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/docsy-example.git docsy
2cd docsy

Install Missing Dependencies

The search module uses RTLCSS to generate styles for RTL sites.

1npm i -D rtlcss

Import Module

hugo.yaml

1module:
2  imports:
3  - disable: false
4    path: github.com/hugomods/search
5  - disable: false
6    path: github.com/google/docsy
7  - disable: false
8    path: github.com/google/docsy/dependencies

hugo.toml

 1[module]
 2[[module.imports]]
 3    disable = false
 4    path = 'github.com/hugomods/search'
 5[[module.imports]]
 6    disable = false
 7    path = 'github.com/google/docsy'
 8[[module.imports]]
 9    disable = false
10    path = 'github.com/google/docsy/dependencies'

hugo.json

 1{
 2   "module": {
 3      "imports": [
 4         {
 5            "disable": false,
 6            "path": "github.com/hugomods/search"
 7         },
 8         {
 9            "disable": false,
10            "path": "github.com/google/docsy"
11         },
12         {
13            "disable": false,
14            "path": "github.com/google/docsy/dependencies"
15         }
16      ]
17   }
18}

Import CSS

layouts/partials/hooks/head-end.html
1{{ partialCached "search/assets/css" . }}

Import JS

layouts/partials/hooks/body-end.html
1{{ partialCached "search/assets/js" . }}

Override the Search Input Partial

layouts/partials/search-input.html
 1<div class="td-search td-search--offline search-modal-toggle position-relative">
 2  <div class="td-search__icon"></div>
 3  {{- with site.Params.search.shortcut_search }}
 4    <div class="position-absolute search-modal-toggle-shortcut">
 5      {{- range . }}
 6        <kbd>{{ replace . "Control" "CTRL" | upper }}</kbd>
 7      {{- end }}
 8    </div>
 9  {{- end }}
10  <input
11    type="search"
12    class="td-search__input form-control"
13    placeholder="{{ T "ui_search" }}"
14    aria-label="{{ T "ui_search" }}"
15    autocomplete="off" >
16</div>

You might want to disable the gcs_engine_id and offlineSearch to remove the unused JS.

Configure Search Module

hugo.yaml

1outputs:
2  home:
3  - HTML
4  - RSS
5  - SearchIndex

hugo.toml

1[outputs]
2  home = ['HTML', 'RSS', 'SearchIndex']

hugo.json

1{
2   "outputs": {
3      "home": [
4         "HTML",
5         "RSS",
6         "SearchIndex"
7      ]
8   }
9}

The configuration above appends the SearchIndex into the home output, to generate search index.

Tweak the Styles

assets/scss/_styles_project.scss
 1:root {
 2    --search-primary: #{$primary} !important;
 3}
 4
 5.search-result {
 6    mark {
 7        padding: 0; // remove the padding of highlight matches.
 8    }
 9}
10
11.search-modal-toggle-shortcut {
12    right: 0.75rem;
13    top: 0.325rem;
14
15    kbd {
16        background: #{$primary};
17    }
18}
19
20.td-navbar {
21    .search-modal-toggle-shortcut {
22        display: none;
23    }
24}

Start Hugo Server

That’s it, now let’s start the Hugo server to preview.