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Do you know of any client-side search solutions for static sites? (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/webdev@programming.dev
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I'm looking for a way to add search to a fully static site (think technical documentation) without any server side compute or API.

My idea was to implement one that generates a static index that can be queried by client-side javascript when doing a search, and have the index be organized in such a way that it can be used without having to download the entire thing.

I feel like this should exist already, but I have zero experience here. So, can anyone share suggestions?

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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Pagefind is an awesome solution and can work with pretty much any static site generator. https://pagefind.app

For example, I use it here on my site That HTML Blog.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Search incorporating the static site generators as keywords; there’s some JavaScript stuff for that which you may be able to modify. Example https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search

    I am not a frontend person.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yes, there are often extensions to static site generators that have this. I like quarto because this is built into the static site generator itself and is just a toggle option but it is a common feature.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I feel like it should exist as well and would love to know what the community is aware of

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