gee-contrib
commented
5 years ago search would be a major issue if this Repo is to scale up. lunr.js does not support boolean operators e.g. AND or OR between search terms. I think this would be quite problematic at some point. I dug around and found http://elasticlunr.com/ which is based on lunr.js , has nearly identical syntax (so forking just-the-docs and replacing lunr with elasticlunr may not be too hard...) and does have boolean operators functionality.
Ideally, we would liked a 'smart search' which goes beyond words/terms and simple indexing, similar to sites such as StackExchange e.g. try asking a new question in https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/ask or another sub-forum. I don't know how those are implemented... but having at least some AND operators would be good
jdbcode
guy1ziv2
slattery
The "Just the Doc" has an integrated search interface that does not require us to build an index, which is nice, but we have no say over what is included in the search (page title, content, and URL are included). In some ways I think this is fine - it makes it very comprehensive, however, it could return too much to be useful. As @gee-contrib has pointed out, maybe we could have it only search in a given section or within a YAML field where a user assigns tags to the content - it looks like there might be ways to do this in the lunr.js engine and "Just the Doc" provides one example of making a more specific search. In terms of adding tags though, we could use the "labels UI component" which are included in search results and look good too - an easy indicator about what is included in a tutorial/example. I posted an example of using the tags here: https://gee-community.github.io/GEE-Dev-Docs/docs/methods/specific/methods-specific-topic2.html