Pagefind is absolutely insane. I've tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer.
I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes.
The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating.
> edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast!
create the index
``` bash
npx -y pagefind --site public --serve
```
Then I put this on a page, it looks really nice on a white background, but would need some work to drop into a dark theme.
``` html
```