rosey VS pagefind

Check out rosey https://github.com/CloudCannon/rosey

Our SSGs through the ages series delves into the history of this space, and one of the trends that we’re seeing is larger and larger projects migrating to static websites, helped in part by the efficiency of static site generators like Hugo. We build many such sites for ourselves — the CloudCannon documentation is nothing to sneeze at — as well as for our Enterprise partners, and our customers build yet more on our platform every day. As this scale continues to increase, we find ourselves encountering new and interesting challenges. In the past we have released open-source tools for component-driven development, internationalization, pagination and portability. Now, we have our sights set on search.

Pagefind is a static search library that aims to perform well on small or large sites, while using as little bandwidth as possible, and you don't have to host any infrastructure.

In theory, if we ran lower level code, we would be using less resources. That's more than a theory. Go to this video where I demonstrate Pagefind, written in Rust and compiled to Wasm as target, as a static app that ingests and indexes HTML documents and runs super efficient search queries, all client-side.

✅ Pagefind static search library integration

I use Astro SSG and Cloudflare Pages. I use https://github.com/cloudcannon/pagefind for search on my Astro setup. You can test the search functionality here https://tinyrocket.pages.dev/.

From its repo: "Pagefind runs after any static site generator and automatically indexes the built static files. Pagefind then outputs a static search bundle to your website, and exposes a JavaScript search API that can be used anywhere on your site."

Pagefind is cool!

An option there is https://pagefind.app/ — not as fast as a persistent server but solves some of the deployment and bandwidth issues.