Suggestion for full-text search (stork) about docuowl

[heyvito]

Hey @netstx! Thank you for the suggestion!
The initial idea was to emit a single HTML file, but since we started using WASM for FTS, indeed stork is indeed a great option!
I'll take a look at this ASAP!

Once again, thank you for the suggestion! ♥️

[heyvito]

Hi there @netstx!

I discussed with other members, and we sadly determined it would be not ideal to use Stork as a dependency of Docuowl.
In order to use it, we would need to either:

a) Distribute a Stork binary together with Docuowl, which would end up with more than a single binary; or
b) Compile Stork as a cdylib and use it through a FFI. To do that, we would need to compile Stork to all platforms we are currently supporting (Darwin ARM64/x86_64, Linux ARM64/x86_64), and that would require us to maintain a build pipeline for all those platforms. Also, FFI between Rust and Go is a slippery slope, and that would require extra work in order to maintain that integration.

The search we are providing here would be just to aid people searching for contents (since it will by default avoid indexing code blocks). For all other needs and purposes, the browser native search would be enough for all use cases, specially since Docuowl emits a single HTML file. ✨

It is really sad we can't use it. Stork is an awesome project, and I really wanted to be able to use it here. :(

I hope this explains our reasoning, and please let me know in case I can provide you further information!

[netstx]

@heyvito Glad you found it useful! I am not fluent in Go, but I'd be happy to help test this feature in the future, just mention me here and I will help where I can :)

P.S.: I guess it didn't cross my mind you could use stork with just the finished .html file isntead of the markdown files, that'd be even easier I guess!

[netstx]

@heyvito that makes a lot of sense, nevertheless thanks for putting this much thought into my suggestion!