No feedback on no search results

[h-enk]

Description

When there are no search results, no feedback message is displayed.

Steps to reproduce

1. Browse to https://doks.netlify.app/docs/prologue/introduction/
2. Search for 22
3. Hit Enter

Expected result

Something like:

Actual result

No results:

After hitting Enter:

Environment

Not relevant.

[schnerring]

From the Algolia docs:

The most common autocomplete UX is one that displays a list of suggested searches that your users can select from as they type. Algolia provides a Query Suggestions feature that generates suggested search terms based on your what your users are searching for and the results within your dataset.

Although flexsearch provides query suggestions, what you're looking for here is (user-)data-driven query suggestions which is typically done with analytics services.

So unless there is a way to statically build search suggestions, I don't know how to get around an external service provider like Algolia.

[h-enk]

Yeah, I get that. I don't think we should go down that road. Data or user driven query suggestions are not a must have for Doks (as far as I'm concerned).

However, I think it would be user friendly to show a message "No results for "<search term>"", instead of showing nothing at all. Do you think that's feasible?