Pure Front-End Inverted Full-Text Search
This article introduces the implementation of a pure front-end full-text search technology, including the construction of an inverted index using IndexedDB, prefix search, word segmentation optimization, and multi-language support.
Compared to existing solutions, i18n.site's pure front-end full-text search is compact and fast, suitable for small to medium-sized websites such as documentation and blogs, and is available offline.
After several weeks of development, i18n.site (a purely static markdown multilingual translation & website building tool) now supports pure front-end full-text search.
This article will share the technical implementation of i18n.site's pure front-end full-text search. Visit i18n.site to experience the search functionality.
For small and medium-sized purely static websites such as documents/personal blogs, building a self-built full-text search backend is too heavy, and service-free full-text search is the more common choice.
