July 19, 2021

I’m working on the hairiest part, technically speaking, of the documentation site — which is search functionality! This is slightly trendy at the moment — all the coolest kids are adding FTS to their docs — but is also tremendously useful (and replicates one of the really nice things about Notion hosting).

There are… a lot of options in terms of powering client-side search.

• . There’s something to be said for home-rolled search functionality; hell, that’s what I’m doing in Buttondown proper, though that’s largely because it’s a split between client side search (for paths) and server side search (for per-user objects). Still, the killer thing here is full-text search (since the documentation is going to be relatively long), and I think it’s much harder to do that than tokenized search.