🔧 [CHANGE] - upgrade to Docusaurus 3 - search plugin

[MatissJanis]

Description

The current search plugin for docusaurus has two issues:

1. it is not compatible with docusaurus v3 (which prohibits us from upgrading)
2. it indexes all pages (ideally we should not index the release notes since they just spam the search results)

Expected behavior

Find a solution to solve the above two issues. This might require switching to a different search plugin.

[RubenOlsen]

@MatissJanis I'll take a look at this.

[psybers]

@MatissJanis Perhaps this? https://v1.docusaurus.io/docs/en/search

[psybers]

Sorry, linked to the old page. Here is the current: https://docusaurus.io/docs/search

[psybers]

But also maybe the existing search plugin works on v3? cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local#205

And there was a PR to support ignoring paths: https://github.com/cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local/pull/87/files

We could fork that plugin and add that support.

[RubenOlsen]

@psybers, thanks for the pointer. I am planning to start working on this issue next week.

[RubenOlsen]

Status per Jan 5th: Lots and lots of breaking changes. This did not become a walk in the park - and a side effect is that some characters from now on {}[]<>, etc need to be escaped.