sverrejb/stork

Stork is a tool that lets you add a fast, interactive search bar to a website without needing a backend server or database. If you have a blog, a documentation site, or any collection of pages whose content is just static files, you can use this to give your visitors instant search results as they type, much like the search bars on large commercial sites. It works in two steps. First, you run a command-line program on your computer that reads your content files and builds a compact search index file. You write a simple configuration listing the files you want searchable, their titles, and their web URLs. Second, you upload that index file to your web server alongside your site, add a small piece of JavaScript to your pages, and the search interface appears. When someone types a query, the JavaScript downloads the index and runs the search directly in the visitor's browser, returning results immediately. This is useful for anyone running a static site or blog where you previously had no good search option. For example, if you write a personal blog and want readers to find every post mentioning "design," or if you maintain a documentation site and want users to quickly locate a specific guide, this gives you that capability. You can even run multiple independent search boxes on the same page if needed. The project is built in Rust and compiles to WebAssembly, which is a technology that lets code run very fast inside a web browser. That technical choice is what makes the search feel instant even though all the work is happening on the visitor's computer rather than on a server. The tradeoff is that the search index is built ahead of time, so it only reflects content as it existed when you ran the build step. If you publish new content, you rebuild the index and re-upload it.