search tool

[lskatz]

Hi, wondering if you want to add a search to the blog if it isn't too much work

[hexylena]

Search is pretty easy yeah, worth adding :) there's a couple different options depending on the goals.

there are a few methods that people use commonly with static sites:

• metadata exact search is very easy to implement
• full text exact search is probably in-scope for the number and size of posts we have
• inexact search, tf/idf, BM25 are all a bit harder to implement but possible. Here I don't know if there's anything off the shelf.
• the fancy new third party dependent options (I don't know the space very well.)

for the first two cases I generally use lunr.js, for the third i've mostly done this with a server-side component