const { Index } = require("flexsearch"); (async function(){ // you will need to keep the index configuration // they will not export, also every change to the // configuration requires a full re-index const config = { tokenize: "forward" }; // create a simple index which can store id-content-pairs let index = new Index(config); // some test data const data = [ 'cats abcd efgh ijkl mnop qrst uvwx cute', 'cats abcd efgh ijkl mnop qrst cute', 'cats abcd efgh ijkl mnop cute', 'cats abcd efgh ijkl cute', 'cats abcd efgh cute', 'cats abcd cute', 'cats cute' ]; // add data to the index data.forEach((item, id) => { index.add(id, item); }); // perform query let result = index.search("cute cat"); // display results result.forEach(i => { console.log(data[i]); }); // ----------------------- // EXPORT // ----------------------- const fs = require("fs").promises; await fs.mkdir("./export/").catch(e => {}); await index.export(async function(key, data){ await fs.writeFile("./export/" + key, data, "utf8"); }); // ----------------------- // IMPORT // ----------------------- // create the same type of index you have used by .export() // along with the same configuration index = new Index(config); // load them in parallel const files = await fs.readdir("./export/"); await Promise.all(files.map(async file => { const data = await fs.readFile("./export/" + file, "utf8"); index.import(file, data); })); // perform query result = index.search("cute cat"); // display results console.log("-------------------------------------"); result.forEach(i => { console.log(data[i]); }); }());