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by abalone 2480 days ago
Network latency is an issue then. The word list is going to lag behind keystrokes. Also, doesn't work offline.
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If you assume your corpus fits in the same instance (since you mention offline), you can run a single node elasticsearch on the same instance as well.
No, you can't run elasticsearch offline on a web client.

Look, we can keep going back and forth and maybe you'll dig up some javascript library that implements a search. And that's fine, I believe there are "maker" roles that largely are about gluing things together and translating requirements into code and shouldn't require screening for CS fundamentals. But at some point it gets a little hacky and suboptimal if you lack a good practical grasp of computer science.