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[dag7dev]

It would be nice to have a static search bar that doesn't involve an external service to search for text in our articles.

[tomfran]

Yes I agree, I briefly looked at some libraries but all of them had custom UI which didn't fit. What do you mean by not using external dependencies?

[tomfran]

Implementing some basic search by myself (using basic tokenization and keeping an inverted index loaded in memory) was an option but decided to put that aside for the moment. Maybe you have something in mind that I don't know.

[dag7dev]

Yep, I was exactly thinking about tokenization. By "no external services", I mean avoid using ElasticSearch or services like that.

[dag7dev]

I was thinking about lunr.js, is it feasible for our scopes?

[tomfran]

Oh okay, so an external dependency. I think anything would be okay honestly, given that it provides full text search over pages. The main concern would be about the UI.

Ideally, an implementation that allows to manually display search results would be perfect, this way the UI can be tailored to the theme.

[dag7dev]

Could be interesting to have a separate "search" page?

[tomfran]

Yes we can do that