vite-plugin-pagefind

A Vite plugin for easily integrating pagefind into Vite based projects.

Features

• Ensures pagefind is present during development.
• Ensures pagefind can be safely used through dynamic imports in conjunction with Vite.

Why?

Read about the reasoning for this plugin here: https://hugokorte.pages.dev/articles/pagefind-with-vite

Installation

Install from npm using your preferred package manager:

pnpm add -D pagefind vite-plugin-pagefind

Usage

1. Add the plugin to in vite.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import pagefind from "vite-plugin-pagefind";

export default defineConfig({
	plugins: [pagefind()],
});

You can pass the options to the plugin directly in your Vite configuration:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import pagefind from "vite-plugin-pagefind";

export default defineConfig({
	plugins: [
		pagefind({
			site: "<BUILD_DIR>",
			assets_dir: "<ASSETS_DIR>",
			pagefind_dir: "<PAGEFIND_DIR>",
			build_command: "<BUILD_COMMAND>",
			dev_strategy: "<DEV_STRATEGY>",
		}),
	],
});

Note: If you decide to use an inline config, you would still need to add the --site flag to your pagefind command.

Note: If your framework does not have a vite.config consider consulting the framework documentation to see how to add a Vite plugin.

2. Add the post build command to your package.json:

{
	"scripts": {
		"build": "vite build && pagefind"
	}
}

3. If you didn't pass the configuration options to the plugin, you can use the pagefind.json file to configure the plugin, as shown:

{
	"site": "<BUILD_DIR>",
	"vite_plugin_pagefind": {
		"assets_dir": "<ASSETS_DIR>",
		"pagefind_dir": "<PAGEFIND_DIR>",
		"build_command": "<BUILD_COMMAND>",
		"dev_strategy": "<DEV_STRATEGY>"
	}
}

If for some reason you decide to define your configuration in both the file and the Vite configuration, the file will take precedence over the inline Vite configuration.

Note: vite-plugin-pagefind currently only supports .json files, more are planned be supported in the future.

Config

site

The directory where your build output lives, this is required for both pagefind and this plugin.

assets_dir

The directory where the static assets are located relative to the project's root as specified in the Vite config.

default: 'public'

pagefind_dir

The directory part of the URL you use to import the pagefind script on your site. For example, if you use /pagefind/pagefind.js, the pagefind_dir is pagefind. If you use /search/static/pagefind/pagefind.js, the pagefind_dir is search/static/pagefind.

default: 'pagefind'

build_command

The command to build and index the project.

default: 'npm run build'

dev_strategy

The indexing strategy used during development:

• "eager": Build and index the app every time the development server starts
• "lazy": Build and index the app only if the pagefind bundle isn't present already

default: 'lazy'

Types

Apart from the plugin, this package also exposes the types from pagefind as well as extending them by providing an additional Pagefind type:

import type { Pagefind } from "vite-plugin-pagefind/types";

const pagefind: Pagefind = await import("/pagefind/pagefind.js");

Pagefind

For further questions regarding Pagefind itself you can refer to the official docs.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.