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by emmanueloga_ 735 days ago
P.S. it just occurred to me that if the aggregated links are less than 1mb of data or something like that you could try to bundle all data in a single JSON object and search in the frontend with a library like flexsearch [1]. That could be even less work than running a minimal rails backend.

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1: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch

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They don't even need to output to JSON - https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

The entire thing could be a static site using the above method -- even if it's many hundreds of megabytes in size!