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by pstomi 77 days ago
I looked at your doc book (https://sycamore.dev/book/guide). I suppose it uses sycamore itself. Do you plan to add a search to it?

(if the "search implementation" is readable enough, it may perhaps also serve as teaching material :-)
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lukechu10 77 days ago
Yes I plan on adding doc search. Although I'm not sure if I should try to build one from scratch (never tried building full text search before) or using something prebuilt like Algolia docsearch.
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pstomi 77 days ago
Algolia docsearch would host an AI view of the doc, on its own website with its own stack, no?

It resembles deepwiki (which I used on several of my projects, see for example https://deepwiki.com/pthom/imgui_bundle).

If algolia is close to deepwiki as I suspect, that does not replace the original doc site: it needs to index an existing doc site before. So adding (even a simple) search to this site would be worth it imho.

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lukechu10 77 days ago
No I think that's a different product. What I had in mind is what is on, for example, https://tailwindcss.com/ and many other open source project websites. If you open the search menu, you'll see at the bottom that it's powered by Algolia docsearch.

Basically its a service that automatically crawls your docs and creates a search index and widget that you can include on your website.

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