Pagefind

Static site search.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Zero config search for static sites. Builds the index after the static site build step. No server required. Supports custom sorts, filtering, weighting, and multi-language. Includes a pre-built UI with highlighting of search terms. Indexes HTML by default, but can be customized to add any files e.g. PDFs, JSON, etc.

Tradeoffs

Non-HTML files must be added individually through the custom index config.

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