JSON output

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Explore facilitating JSON output for search indexes

Hugo allows JSON output, a bit unclear what Fuse.js needs but should have a look at https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/blob/4a924cef54081b61530a30bd69d442ae95f16561/layouts/_default/index.json#L4 basically generate a big index.json file and use fuse to go through it.

search code:

https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/blob/4a924cef54081b61530a30bd69d442ae95f16561/assets/js/fastsearch.js

linker

https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/blob/4a924cef54081b61530a30bd69d442ae95f16561/layouts/partials/head.html#L79

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discussion fuse static: https://gummibeer.dev/blog/2021/static-search-with-fusejs/
https://ben.land/post/2021/12/02/hugo-search-functionality/
https://gist.github.com/eddiewebb/735feb48f50f0ddd65ae5606a1cb41ae?permalink_comment_id=3393703

a somewhat easier to read generator: https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn/blob/master/layouts/index.json

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in papermod, index json looks like

[
{ "content": "...",
"permalink": "https://...",
"summary": "...",
"title": "..."
}, ...
]

and the content is stripped out of HTML and escaped.

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stork remains appealing (esp. basic styling makes sense) also it does its own base indexing (though one could provide a self-defined one: jameslittle230/stork#355) would be good to make it work...

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JSON output (or at least something like "plain text" output) would still be useful though even for Stork. JSON probably makes the most sense and could have all local vars as string repr (some might be pretty damn ugly so maybe can just do that for easily_serializable so that we don't end up with a ton of crap; also probably don't do the _* vars.