ssr built app uses serialized content database

packages/content/lib/database.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const chokidar = require('chokidar')
 const JSON5 = require('json5')
 const Loki = require('@lokidb/loki').default
 const LokiFullTextSearch = require('@lokidb/full-text-search').default
+const LokiFSStorage = require('@lokidb/fs-storage').default
 const logger = require('consola').withScope('@nuxt/content')
 const { default: PQueue } = require('p-queue')
 const { Markdown, YAML, CSV, XML } = require('../parsers')
@@ -71,6 +72,34 @@ class Database extends Hookable {
     logger.info(`Parsed ${this.items.count()} files in ${s},${Math.round(ns / 1e8)} seconds`)
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Restore database from file
+   * @param {string} dir - Directory containing database dump file.
+   */
+  async load (dir) {
+    const dbFilename = this.db.filename
+    this.db.filename = join(dir, dbFilename)
+    await this.db.initializePersistence({ adapter: new LokiFSStorage() })
+    await this.db.loadDatabase()
+    this.db.filename = dbFilename
+
+    // recreate references
+    this.items = this.db.getCollection('items')
+    this.dirs = this.items.mapReduce(doc => doc.dir, dirs => [...new Set(dirs)])
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Store database info file
+   * @param {string} dir - Directory containing database dump file.
+   */
+  async save (dir) {
+    const dbFilename = this.db.filename
+    this.db.filename = join(dir, dbFilename)
+    await this.db.initializePersistence({ adapter: new LokiFSStorage() })
+    await this.db.saveDatabase()
+    this.db.filename = dbFilename
+  }
+
   /**
    * Walk dir tree recursively
    * @param {string} dir - Directory to browse.
@@ -171,7 +200,7 @@ class Database extends Hookable {
    */
   async parseFile (path) {
     const extension = extname(path)
-    // If unkown extension, skip
+    // If unknown extension, skip
     if (!EXTENSIONS.includes(extension) && !this.extendParserExtensions.includes(extension)) {
       return
     }

packages/content/lib/index.js

@@ -108,12 +108,18 @@ module.exports = async function (moduleOptions) {
   )
   database.hook('file:updated', event => ws.broadcast(event))
 
-  // Initialize database from file system
-  await database.init()
+  if (this.options.server && !this.options.dev && this.options.ssr) {
+    // Load database from dist
+    const dir = resolve(this.options.buildDir, 'dist', 'server')
+    await database.load(dir)
+  } else {
+    // Initialize database from file system
+    await database.init()
+  }
 
   // close database when Nuxt closes
   this.nuxt.hook('close', () => database.close())
-  // listen to nuxt server to updrag
+  // listen to nuxt server to upgrade
 
   const $content = function () {
     let options
@@ -225,6 +231,13 @@ module.exports = async function (moduleOptions) {
       }
     })
   } else {
+    if (!this.options.dev) {
+      this.nuxt.hook('build:done', async () => {
+        const dir = resolve(this.options.buildDir, 'dist', 'server')
+        await database.save(dir)
+      })
+    }
+
     this.addPlugin({
       fileName: 'content/plugin.client.js',
       src: join(__dirname, '../templates/plugin.client.js'),

packages/content/package.json

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   ],
   "main": "lib/",
   "dependencies": {
+    "@lokidb/fs-storage": "^2.1.0",
     "@lokidb/full-text-search": "^2.1.0",
     "@lokidb/loki": "^2.1.0",
     "@nuxt/types": "^2.14.12",