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A Gatsby theme for building Primer documentation sites
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Improve search performance on larger sites #182

Closed BinaryMuse closed 3 years ago

BinaryMuse commented 4 years ago

While #178 helped minimize page jank while searching, the actual search process on larger sites (particularly primer/css) still takes a while — sometimes 300-1000ms depending on the query. It seems that while Fuse.js has the fastest index time, it also has the slowest search time. This is probably more ideal for a search-and-refresh flow; for real-time fuzzy-searching, we should consider an alternative solution.

I experimented with using Lunr, and while searching was indeed faster, getting good fuzzy-searching results was more difficult, as it tends to behave more like a regular full-text search. I experimented with custom queries using Index#query and adding wildcards and edit distance markers, but this increased search times to multiple seconds. More experimentation is needed.

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