Massive Wiki Wednesday, 2022-06-15
MWB Search
Various Goals
- as a website visitor, I can do a full-text search over the whole wiki
- as a website visitor, I can start typing and see type-ahead results appear in real-time
- as an MWB developer, I want to experiment with UX of a search box and search results
- as an MWB developer, I want to experiment with UX of a type-ahead results
- as an MWB developer, I want to experiment with Elasticlunr
Some approaches for experimenting with search.
Approach 1 - simple crowbar Elasticlunr into MWB
- install a search box in page.html (or header, or whatever)
- in mwb.py, write a JSON index that Elasticlunr can read
- hook up the search box to Elasticlunr
- profit!
Approach 2 - play with an Elasticlunr how-to
- don't use MWB yet
- use an Elasticlunr "how-to", follow it verbatim
- profit!
Approach 3 - try search, but not Elasticlunr
- install a search box in page.html (or header, or whatever)
- in mwb.py, write a database/index (maybe sqlite3?) that we can read
- hook up the search box to some code we wrote that can read the database/index
- present search results
Approach 4 - UX of search + search results
- install a search box in page.html (or header, or whatever)
- write the simplest possible code that would return mock search results