Site Search

Every built site ships with search out of the box: the magnifier in the header opens a query field, and results appear in a dropdown as you type. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to run: the index is a static file built with the site, and the search executes entirely in the reader's browser.

What gets found

The index covers every published page:

• Titles, with double weight: a page whose title matches ranks above a page that only mentions the term in passing.
• Body text, as readable prose: excerpts in the dropdown come from the actual page content, with the matched words highlighted.
• Tags from frontmatter: a query matching a tag finds the page even when the word never appears in the text.
• Landing page sections: badges, headings, and card titles of landing pages are searchable like any other content.

Matching is case-insensitive and prefix-aware: typing deploy also finds deployment. The dropdown shows the top ten results.

Keeping a page out of search

Set hidden: true in a page's frontmatter to publish it but keep it out of the search index - useful for pages meant to be reached by a direct link only. Unpublished pages (status other than final) are never indexed.

Scale

The index is a single JSON file containing the site's text, downloaded once when the reader first searches. This is a deliberate simplicity trade-off that serves documentation sites comfortably into the hundreds of pages; the search itself adds no load anywhere but the reader's browser tab.