Hello, I have a small project I will work on with a guy who is not a developer. He wants to be able to work on this tool by himself so I will kickstart the project and give him a dev environment. He will work on the client/javascript part. I will write a tiny backend with Phoenix, and one importan…

This sounds like a great use-case for MiniSearch , a client-side full-text search engine written in JavaScript, small enough to run in the browser and with zero dependencies (disclaimer: I am the author of the library). MiniSearch is routinely used for searching amongst tens of thousands of small it…

Using an online IDE could work around a lot of the “can’t install PG or Docker locally” issues without writing any extra code - something like https://www.gitpod.io for instance.

But it requires to download all the data in the browser ? That could be acceptable since it is just a temporary hack.

Well as I’ve said our connectivity could be limited. I’m not sure if I use the right words but it just boils down to “no internet” sometimes :slight_smile:

Yes, it requires transferring all data to the browser, but if the items are small it can be surprisingly fast (the demo that I sent does the same: it transfers and re-index the whole collection at page load). JSON can be compressed a lot, so with server-side caching and compression you can go a long…

[image] lucaong: I know that client-side full-text search might sound weird, It does not sound weird at all, it is actually nice. Data will be small since the browser will be fed with only id id/name/name_fr subset of the data, as there is no need to download the full items database. And so …

Welcome :slight_smile: in case your project is using React, you can also use the React wrapper for MiniSearch .

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lud February 27, 2020, 4:06pm 9

I generally go with Svelte but that will be good guidelines