Free and Easy Static Site Search for Jemdoc

4 Sept 2020

I implemented a simple search on this static site using LunrJS. The code was lifted from https:github.comBLE-LTERLunr-Index-and-Search-for-Static-Sites and was pretty easy to implement with JEMDOC!

After compiling Jemdoc, I run make search which creates an index of all my files using the html folder. The actual search and javascript-based display is handled by Lunr. It was surprisingly fast and easy to setup, and free!!

# to make the search functionality
.PHONY search:
search:
	# run the search index
	node build_index.js
	mv lunr_index.js html/lunr_index.js
	cp lunr_client.js html