Boy am I a dope.
I’ve been fiending for search capabilities on this here ’blog for
ages. Never got around to putting something together dreading grinding
through HTML and JavaScript coding. So I just limped along with
site:crossjam.net modifiers in search engines.
About this time last year, I posted about pagefind. pagefind is a JavaScript toolkit for creating embedded search indexes to go along with static server pages. Looked easy peasy to run and use. Lame old me still dragged his feet.
Finally for some Friday hacking, I decided to push through and see if I could get pagefind based search working in an experimental fashion.
After reacquainting myself with the pagefind docs, I had it working in an hour 🙄. Still have a few bits to polish, but once it’s working there will be an honest to gosh search page