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Talking about search on a static docs site, has anyone tried a static pre-generated search like https://lunrjs.com/ https://lunrjs.com/ ?

jorams 9mo ago
Basically every Elixir package's docs include search based on Lunr, as it's included by default by ExDoc[1]. It's quite good. [1]: https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/ https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/
nicbou 9mo ago
I use Lunr on allaboutberlin.com. It's simple and effective, but searching the whole content would have required loading more files than I was comfortable with. Therefore it only searches titles and descriptions. There are probably workarounds, but it's the only limitation I can think of. Otherwise Lunr just works.
butz 9mo ago
I think https://develop.kde.org/docs/ https://develop.kde.org/docs/ is using lunrjs for search, but downloading and parsing almost 2MB file of search data creates some hiccups on website during load.
fanf2 9mo ago
I use https://pagefind.app/ https://pagefind.app/ for search on my website. It’s really easy to add to a static site.
victorbjorklund 9mo ago
I been using this project (seems to be abandoned now but still works) https://stork-search.net/ https://stork-search.net/ Works great.
phcreery 9mo ago
vitepress seems to use https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/ https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/ and the vitepress docs I have built and used are good.
captn3m0 9mo ago
We use at endoflife.date, and are fairly happy. We had to add a workaround to get some search terms working (because of how it does stemming, searching for BSD wouldn't show openbsd earlier): https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/4924 https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/4924), but it is still not 100% perfect: searching for fusion still doesn't get you coldfusion.
pdyc 9mo ago
i use flex search https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch

jorams 9mo ago

Basically every Elixir package's docs include search based on Lunr, as it's included by default by ExDoc[1]. It's quite good. [1]: https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/ https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/

nicbou 9mo ago

I use Lunr on allaboutberlin.com. It's simple and effective, but searching the whole content would have required loading more files than I was comfortable with. Therefore it only searches titles and descriptions. There are probably workarounds, but it's the only limitation I can think of. Otherwise Lunr just works.

butz 9mo ago

I think https://develop.kde.org/docs/ https://develop.kde.org/docs/ is using lunrjs for search, but downloading and parsing almost 2MB file of search data creates some hiccups on website during load.

fanf2 9mo ago

I use https://pagefind.app/ https://pagefind.app/ for search on my website. It’s really easy to add to a static site.

victorbjorklund 9mo ago

I been using this project (seems to be abandoned now but still works) https://stork-search.net/ https://stork-search.net/ Works great.

phcreery 9mo ago

vitepress seems to use https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/ https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/ and the vitepress docs I have built and used are good.

captn3m0 9mo ago

We use at endoflife.date, and are fairly happy. We had to add a workaround to get some search terms working (because of how it does stemming, searching for BSD wouldn't show openbsd earlier): https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/4924 https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/4924), but it is still not 100% perfect: searching for fusion still doesn't get you coldfusion.

pdyc 9mo ago

i use flex search https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch