General: Create Site Search

[RoboticMind]

Creates a basic site search system. Especially useful for the wiki. As the wiki has gotten larger, it has gotten harder to find things on there

Limitations:

• Done client side, so has to send more data and store in memory
• Has to reload page to search again
  • Keeps memory down because it can garbage collect the page data after a search. Already a ~10MB difference in RAM, but that will grow as the site grows.

[nathanielcwm]

Appears like G analytics can track site searches. Wait nvm i'm guessing it's for non local searches.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en

[RoboticMind]

It would actually still work because this uses ?query=yoursearch in the URL

I originally planned on making the search work differently through having search bars across the site where using that made more sense. I stuck with it because it would take more work to change and I've already spent too much time on this. As well I may still add search bars to the wiki pages

[barton2526]

Could the search bar be made a little wider? It looks a little squished on my screen:

[barton2526]

additionally, this is a pretty empty page

[barton2526]

nit: searching "~" throws an uncaught exception, but we probably don't care

":" also throws an exception. Probably don't care about that either

[barton2526]

Could the search bar be made a little wider? It looks a little squished on my screen:

resolved, thanks

[RoboticMind]

additionally, this is a pretty empty page

It's less empty when it's filled with results, but I think with the wider search bar its not as bad.

[RoboticMind]

nit: searching "~" throws an uncaught exception, but we probably don't care

Yeah those are related to extra search parameters you can give with lunr.js. ~ is to try to fuzzy match and is used like work~1 to say that one character can be off of that word. https://lunrjs.com/guides/searching.html#fuzzy-matches