Searching is hard... Pt. 1
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Note: This blog post is part one of a two-part series. The second part has not been posted yet.
I won't mince words — searching for things is hard. It ranks up there with password hashing, and given the opportunity, I'd farm out the process to a library that I know does the job.
Nobody I know personally has built a search index by hand, because it'd be a complete waste of time (especially since you'd be reinventing the wheel trying to solve a problem that's been solved multiple times already). So where does that leave us when it comes to forum software?
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@zenkamal said:
Solr seems to take up too much memory to be the default search, wonder what will emerge.
Solr also requires a hard dependency (need to install via apt or compile from source) and configuration, which makes it an automatic no-go for default inclusion in NodeBB.
Unless Reds phonetic search is loved by everybody, dbsearch will most likely be summarily executed from the
package.json(sorry @baris
), meaning dbsearch and solr would be options for extending your NodeBB install. -
testing
EDIT: works perfectably
