Local search with noIndex: true [feature request], was: No search results on local build

[techbridgedev]

I installed the plugin per the instructions.

I do not have a blog directory on my site.

My config looks like this:

      [
        require.resolve("@easyops-cn/docusaurus-search-local"),
        ({
          hashed: true,
          highlightSearchTermsOnTargetPage: true,
          explicitSearchResultPath: true,
          indexBlog: false,
          indexPages: true
        })
      ]
    ],

Then I ran the build & started the server with npm run serve to serve from the build directory. Every search query returns empty ("no results").

I also ran the build with debug but saw no errors.

[techbridgedev]

The cause was the noIndex option in my config. The site is not for public consumption so I was discouraging search engines from crawling the site. So I'm turning this into a feature request: can we have an option to use noIndex: true but also have internal search work?

[weareoutman]

V0.38.0 introduced the feature: ignore unlisted content (the noIndex option has the similar effect). Your can try previous versions to see it it works for you.

Maybe we can add an option to force enable local search even if noIndex is set.