Add Search feature

[Pabl0cks]

When we have initial version of Docs in production, could be interesting to add a search bar.

Docusaurus docs offer a few options for that:

• 🥇 Algolia DocSearch (official)
• 👥 Typesense DocSearch
• 👥 Local Search
• 👥 Your own SearchBar component

Algolia DocSearch is free for open-source projects, just have to apply to the DocSearch program. I guess we shouldn't have problems getting accepted.

A few examples of other projects:

• Uniswap Docs is using Algolia DocSearch
• Solana uses Algolia too.
• Chia Docs is using a local search => @easyops-cn/docusaurus-search-local', Found another website using the same local search plugin => Courier
• Celo uses Algolia DocSearch but removed Search by Algolia logo
• Flow was using algolia and removed it 12 hours ago 🧐

Update: Just realized ethereum.org docs is also using DocSearch but without Algolia reference.

[technophile-04]

I was just trying to do some comparison b/w Aloglia and Typesense and found this: https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-vs-meilisearch/

On Dev Side :	Typesense	Algolia DocSearch
We will be needing to host the server or use typesense cloud service which both has some cost	Alogolia DocSearch is completely free for OSS tool documentation and they take care of all this

Overall I am kind of leaning toward Algolia DocSearch due to its

1. simplicity on our end
2. since its widely adopted many plugins/tools support or have documentation for Algolia DocSearch out-of-box

Question : Do we need a search feature in the current situation? Like I see currently the docs are pretty intuitive and easily navigable / short. But we will be needing to make decisions in future (we can wait for Carlos if the docs remains short until he comes for the decesion 🙌 )

But please feel free to suggest your thoughts 🙌

[carletex]

Question : Do we need a search feature in the current situation? Like I see currently the docs are pretty intuitive and easily navigable / short. But we will be needing to make decisions in future (we can wait for Carlos if the docs remains short until he comes for the decesion 🙌 )

I agree with this. It's not a huge doc site (at least for now), so the search feature is not critical. Maybe we could defer this a bit... unless someone really likes the idea and wants to implement it :D

[FilipHarald]

I checked out the local-search alternatives. I only got one to work, it's rudimentary but gets the job done. This indexes the pages during build, but after that no additional services needs to be hosted. I made a working example here: https://github.com/FilipHarald/se-2-docs/tree/feat/serch_bar