Search page

[NoelDeMartin]

In v2 there was a separate search page at /search in order to have a url to run searches. For example: https://vuejs.org/v2/search/?q=v%2Dmodel

I implemented that in this PR, so you can take a look there for the motivations and discussion.

Would it make sense to do the same here? Would it make more sense to implement this feature in VuePress instead?

[NataliaTepluhina]

@NoelDeMartin it would be great to have the same page for new docs! Regarding 'where to implement' question: I believe it would be beneficial for VuePress as well but if you think it would be faster/easier to add it to docs website only - let's implement it here first.

You also reminded me that I need to apply for Algolia DocSearch token 😅

[bencodezen]

@NoelDeMartin VuePress comes with a built-in search functionality, so I wonder if it makes sense to see if there's a way you can leverage it to build the search page (rather than starting from scratch). That said, if VuePress search functionality could use some improvement, then I think we could use your help on updating the VuePress library itself so a lot more people can benefit from your ideas!

[NoelDeMartin]

Hi @bencodezen. I've been looking into the @vuepress/plugin-search plugin and I'll probably make a PR to add it there afterwards.

But the docs at the moment are built using VuePress 1.3, and the latest version is 1.5. So I think it's still a good idea to add it here first. I'm not sure if the maintainers would accept a PR upgrading the VuePress dependency, and I'd also have to wait until a version with the search page is released.

If I create a PR here first, it's more likely that it gets merged before the official release of v3 :).