Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
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Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#2I hate it when stuff is marketed as magic, like in this case "impossibly fast web search". It's like marketeers aren't even trying to cover up their lies anymore.
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#3I'll keep my eye on this. It sounds like this runs in the browser itself.
Right now I'm using meilisearch for a project and would prefer to not use up a http port for the search engine. One thing I'll need is fuzzy search though.
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#4I'll keep my eye on this. It sounds like this runs in the browser itself. Right now I'm using meilisearch for a project and would prefer to not use up a http port for the search engine. One thing I'll need is fuzzy search though.
Fuzzy search is definitely on my list! Keep an eye out in the near future...
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#5Like the idea but nothing happens when I type in the search box using ff85 (beta 4).
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#6OP - congratulations on shipping! WASM-powered search caught my eye.
Looks like the search index is downloaded and used locally in the browser, so this is as fast as search can get. One trade-off though is that you're limited to relatively small datasets. While this shouldn't be an issue for small-medium static sites, an index that needs to be downloaded over the wire will affect your page performance for larger sites / datasets.
In those cases, you'd want to use a dedicated search server like Algolia or its open source alternative Typesense [1]. Both of them store the index server-side and only return the relevant records that are searched for.
For eg: you'd probably not want to download 2M records over the wire to search through them locally [2]. You'd be better off storing the index server-side.
[1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense (shameless plug)
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#7I hate it when stuff is marketed as magic, like in this case "impossibly fast web search". It's like marketeers aren't even trying to cover up their lies anymore.
IIUC, it's "impossibly fast" if you assume the search -> see results flow requires a network round-trip (a very common assumption).
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#8Like the idea but nothing happens when I type in the search box using ff85 (beta 4).
I get nothing either, on stable Firefox (84).
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#9Like the idea but nothing happens when I type in the search box using ff85 (beta 4).
I get nothing either, on stable Firefox (84).
Oh no! If it's any consolation, I think it might be the site itself, not the search plugin... the site has been acting up in unrelated ways. The site desperately needs a rewrite, but I didn't have time before this launch date.
Refreshing might work, but no promises? Or you could try my personal site's search bar: https://jameslittle.me/search/
Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
#10I've been working on Stork for just over a year! I recently wrote a blog post about what building it has been like -- if you're interested in the project, definitely check the blog post out!