Normally I don’t submit these small blog like posts here but pagefind was so easy to setup and integrate in my own static site generator and looks beautiful. It even defects images, the default UI looks nice and it responds fast. I think there are more people here that run a static site and would be interested, including an example of how it looks with 10+ years of static site content. I just recently heard about pagefind, it was discussed here almost a year ago ( https://lobste.rs/s/pvkg80/static_low_bandwidth_search_at_scale ) but I missed that…
It’s the AskHistorians Archive. I’ve managed to integrate pagefind, it works very well. The whole site is static which is kind of a challenge with ~600k posts but pagefind is pretty fast!
Normally I don’t submit these small blog like posts here but
pagefindwas so easy to setup and integrate in my own static site generator and looks beautiful. It even defects images, the default UI looks nice and it responds fast. I think there are more people here that run a static site and would be interested, including an example of how it looks with 10+ years of static site content. I just recently heard about pagefind, it was discussed here almost a year ago ( https://lobste.rs/s/pvkg80/static_low_bandwidth_search_at_scale ) but I missed that…Direct link to save a click: https://pagefind.app/
Thanks for the hint - this looks like the perfect tool for the reddit archive site generator I’m building :)
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It’s the AskHistorians Archive. I’ve managed to integrate pagefind, it works very well. The whole site is static which is kind of a challenge with ~600k posts but pagefind is pretty fast!
I’ve actually went the opposite route and integrated meilisearch as full-text search engine.
There’s a few other options for this, not sure how they compare. But there’s tinysearch, Lunr, and a bunch of other options listed on Hugo’s page about search.
This is pretty sweet, thanks for sharing! Definitely going to look into this next time I revamp my personal site.