react-search-lunr

react-search-lunr

A Lunr powered client side search react component.

disclaimer: This is still a bit of a work in progress. It has some limitations, so use at your discretion

Installation and Usage

npm install react-search-lunr

Import ReactSearchLunr where you would like to use it.

import ReactSearchLunr from 'react-search-lunr'

Supply some documents, specify the id (ref in Lunr), some fields, and a filter to search by. Then just supply a children render function which will receive results.

<ReactSearchLunr
  id="id"
  fields=["name", "body"]
  documents=[
    {name: 'aldrin', body:'followed neil armstrong to the moon'},
    {name: 'armstrong', body: 'first to land on the moon'}
  ]>
  {results => result.map(result => (
    <h1>{result.item.name}</h1>
    <p>{result.item.body}</p>
  ))}
</ReactSearchLunr>

Errors

ReactSearchLunr does not catch errors that Lunr throws (e.g. QueryParseError), so you should wrap ReactSearchLunr in an error boundary component. This is particularly helpful if you are piping user input into the filter prop.

Todo

This isn't quite finished. Some of the planned changes:

• passing a compiled Lunr index
• allow updating of documents after component construction
• probably some performance tweaks