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Eleventy By Example

You're reading from   Eleventy By Example Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610497
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bryan Robinson Bryan Robinson
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Website 2. Chapter 2: Adding Data to Your 11ty Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Deploying to a Static Site Host 4. Chapter 4: Building a Blog with Collections 5. Chapter 5: Creating Custom Shortcodes to Add Mixed Media to Markdown 6. Chapter 6: Building a Photography Site with the 11ty Image Plugin 7. Chapter 7: Building a Podcast Website with 11ty Plugins and Custom Outputs 8. Chapter 8: Creating a Static-Site Search with 11ty Serverless and Algolia 9. Chapter 9: Integrating 11ty with a Headless CMS 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom 11ty Plugins 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a search index from 11ty content

In order for a search to work, a search engine needs a set of data to work from. In this case, we need to create a search index for Algolia to create results based on searches. We can do this in a similar fashion to creating the RSS feed for the podcast in Chapter 7. Before we dive into code, let’s talk about what Algolia is.

What is Algolia?

Algolia is a software-as-a-service search provider. They provide powerful APIs to create and update a search index, as well as APIs and frontend libraries to build an end user experience. Their search solutions focus on website performance and search accuracy. By default, they have everything we need for a powerful and fast search. In this chapter, we’ll only scratch the surface of what Algolia provides with the following features:

  • API-driven index creation from JSON
  • Serverless access to search results
  • Automatic content snippets and highlights for results

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