Add Search capabilities

[MoOx]

Should be very easy since we have collections to search in all meta (title, tags etc) - but not in body of the posts.
Maybe agolia can help for the body (ref putaindecode/putaindecode.io#535)

[thangngoc89]

This is interesting. We can make a different md-collection-loader for generating data and feed it with algolia

[MoOx]

Yeah an option like for rss feed.

[thangngoc89]

How about a different loader or maybe a new package (like a plugin) ?

[thangngoc89]

I think this should not be in the core. This belongs to a plugin. Already done this. See https://github.com/thangngoc89/blog/blob/aa40e1b710c06112006ac175972338467adb56b3/web_modules/utils/statinamic-agolia-plugin.js

Generate feed should be done this way too. No need for debounce trick (faster markdown build)

poke @MoOx

[thangngoc89]

We can borrow idea from https://blog.algolia.com/instant-search-blog-documentation-jekyll-plugin/

[MoOx]

Also interesting http://lunrjs.com/

[thangngoc89]

This is what it takes to add agolia to a Statinamic site

daynhauhoc/blog@21b07d8

Demo: http://blog.daynhauhoc.com/

[MoOx]

ETA?

[thangngoc89]

Lunr.js or algolia ? Or a simple component that search collection ?

[MoOx]

We might offer the choice during setup and/or have the simplest solution (without third-party) and offer a doc to add another solution.

[thangngoc89]

I'm on it.

TODO:

• Build index
• Reduce api requests to Algolia on each build by hashing the page content and only send changed page.

Resources:

• https://blog.algolia.com/instant-search-blog-documentation-jekyll-plugin/
• https://blog.algolia.com/how-to-build-a-helpful-search-for-technical-documentation-the-laravel-example/

Example record

{
    "h1": "Validation", 
    "h2": "Working With Error Messages", 
    "h3": "Custom Error Messages", 
    "link": "validation#custom-error-messages", 
    "content": "If needed, you may use custom error messages for validation instead of the defaults. There are several ways to specify custom messages. First, you may pass the custom messages as the third argument to the `Validator::make` method:", 
    "importance": 6, 
    "_tags": [
        "5.1"
    ], 
    "objectID": "5.1-validation#custom-error-messages-380c9827712413dbe75b5db515cd3e59"
}

[thangngoc89]

Algoliasearch jekyll added a lazy_update feature the reduce the number of api calls to Algolia algolia/algoliasearch-jekyll@16e7b74

[MoOx]

This might also be interesting to check out http://fusejs.io/

[bloodyowl]

Considering doing a plugin for this

[MoOx]

Will revisit this idea later.