Re:Offline First
by dadior on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:51AM
(#28692135)
Offline first is a dream to me, I build a big note-taking app (midinote.me) which is 100% offline, but now the biggest pain point is the full text search, yes, we can use DB like this and PouchDB to store data, but currently, there isn't a good solution for full text search in javascript, I tried lunr.js the performance is poor, and researched FTS by sqlite, it don't support Chinese, I ever considered pack the lucene (on JVM) with Electron.js( the desktop wrap on JS) on desktop, I'm not sure it is a good idea, now I am going to re-think all these things, and considering give up offline and switch to server side full text search, it will save huge effort comparing to client-side search!
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Re:Offline First
by 727564797069706 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:55AM
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Kudos on building offline first software!
Just spitballing here: maybe there’s a way to use Redis (and RediSearch) compiled to WebAssembly and then use it on client side?
Thanks, this solution might be better than mine, it don't need JVM
Re:Offline First
by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:10PM
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This didn't work for you?
Yes, I used it, generally, on JS platform, the performance is not so good to do FTS, especially when document is long and the data getting huge.
I’m in the same boat with my app. Have you tried Elasticlunr? It claims to be significantly faster than Lunr.
I ever researched this lib, I haven't any data to support my opinion, but I don't have too much confidence on it. Also, this repo didn't update for a while.