Adding in a Search Bar? #581
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Adding a search bar is dead simple. The challenging step is to actually integrate a search engine.
Each option has tradeoffs that need to be discussed |
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I agree this would be a great addition. It looks like other popular themes use Algolia and Lunr. e.g. |
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This would be great ... |
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Looking forward to any updates on this... |
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Visually speaking I like solutions like ⌘K or kbar. But about the search bar, is it necessary? I understand a search bar being useful in a documentation site, something with a lot more similar or related content that would be hard to find or filter in another way, but for a academic/portfolio site, at least for me, seems a bit unnecessary. |
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I believe a search function helps if the author is active in writing blogs. Currently, we have the tags to help filter, but it only allows one tag to filter each time, it is hard to narrow down with tags. Then, either tags or a search function helps. |
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Since Jekyll has no server side execution, we would have to rely on storing all the required content locally and search from there. If the blog posts increase a lot this would involve downloading the content of every post, so I don't think user-side search is the best option. As for the hosted solution, search.io was bought by algolia.com and will be closed, meilisearch free solution should be self hosted, which I believe doesn't work for our case. The remainder PSE and algolia.com would need an account with a login, but these are the best options IMHO. Edit: algolia have a plugin for jekyll, but it is not mantained anymore. |
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Revisiting this discussion, I believe client side execution is the best one, at least for sites without too much content. Found a couple of templates (just-the-docs and so-simple-theme) that implemented this using lunr.js. But |
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Started to tackle this on #2415. |
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Thoughts on adding a search bar at the top of the website? This can link to posts, announcements, etc.
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