Provide search functionality

[sampittko]

Missing search functionality

Documentation is pretty robust and there is no way to browse quickly through it.

Additional Details

cmd + K shortcut should display dialog with search bar and results that link to the destination with discovered information (e.g. TailwindCSS).

[jmikrut]

Hey @sampittko — you will be happy to hear that we are actually almost done implementing Algolia Docsearch which is exactly what Tailwind uses!

Going to move this to a Discussion until we launch the search. Until then, keep an eye out!

[Ontopic]

Better search on docs is much appreciated. As sampittko said; they're pretty robust already.

Problem for me is / was mostly that the good stuff is "hidden" away in the demo folder of the repo or answers to issues here or there on Github. And of course James' videos - which I loved - but it's probably the first time I actually sat through a Youtube video about coding (FOMO, since no docs); usually I prefer to read the actual code and see examples. Extending the docs with samples and more real life demo's would I think shed a lot more light on how to approach certain issues and make it more approachable for starting devs. I think NextJS and Gatsby are both prime examples of this; lots of boilerplates and demos.

Right now I feel like I'm the only with Richard (he'll probably read this message 🙃) pursuing getting to the bottom of what's possible with Payload - which I'm thinking is a lot - openly apart from the core team. I keep a list of open source projects (mostly extended starter repos) I found that use Payload, but it's kinda hard to find real life examples. Googling or searching for PayloadCMS on Github is also kinda hard, apparently kind a lot of repos contain the words payload and cms 😅

TLDR; I think we could on-board a lot of people with more demos. I'm personally eager to share thoughts and code with anyone interested, perhaps to be published as generalised example repos

Some examples of "hidden gems"
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/139
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/93

[DanRibbens]

I'm adding ?locale=all to the docs right now.
I have a draft of a blog post talking about #93 customizing field elements UI. The plan is to keep making blog posts that help with knowledge transfer that will become a full section of guides.

We also discussed making a awesome-payload repo to curate a list of useful resources. Your feedback reinforces the value in doing that.

Now, back to that search functionality! :)

[Ontopic]

awesome-payload ftw and shutting up now

[Ontopic]

Also just phishing for more hidden gems 😈🤑

[jmikrut]

Search is now live! It's a first implementation, so it'll get better from here, but take a look! What do you think? @sampittko