Static export with flexsearch

[Skreeauk]

I'm looking to export static to reduce bandwith etc, however the flex search uses searchParams so it raises an error there. Is there another solution beside using Algolia?

[fuma-nama]

I was thinking to export a static search map and index it on client side, but I didn't support it because:

• We want full-text search, but it also means that users need to download the content of all pages if we want to index them on client side
• I still think that handling search on server is the best option

If the free tier of Algolia isn't enough, you can:

• Host the search API on another server (hosted on anywhere you want, e.g. Railway): https://fumadocs.vercel.app/docs/headless/search/flexsearch#headless
• Choose other search solutions, like https://orama.com or Elasticsearch. See https://fumadocs.vercel.app/docs/ui/search#other-solutions to replace the default search dialog

The information of search indexes is called Structured Data, on Fumadocs MDX it's generated with: https://fumadocs.vercel.app/docs/mdx/search-index.
You can use it to integrate with other search solutions

[Skreeauk]

I see. Algolia free tier will be enough for my use case, I just wanted to know if there were other alternatives beside Algolia.

Thanks for the quick response.

[Skreeauk]

@fuma-nama

So I got algolia working, but how do I add keywords to it?

I tried looking and I think I'm supposed to pass extra_data, run setIndexSettings then updateDocuments like what sync does. But I find that I could not find the additional frontmatter that I added in source in the json that was generated from buildSearchIndex

[fuma-nama]

Oh you are right, will support it later.

Content Collections can solve it if it's an urgent matter.

[Skreeauk]

Thanks for making it a feature later. Cheers

[fuma-nama]

It should be supported now

[Skreeauk]

Thanks, will check it later.

Also a sidenote, I suggest a note to install algoliasearch ver 4 to use your code, as ver 5 came out ~2 weeks ago and initIndex is removed, and some other stuff https://www.algolia.com/doc/libraries/javascript/v5/upgrade/

[Shubham-EV]

I am using flex search and trying to use tag filters, but it doesn't seem to work. Also, here I get an error: "page.data.tag doesn't exist." Can you tell me how to configure it using flex search? Currently, on your repo, it is configured using Algolia search and
here can you tell me what value refers to ?