Implement-search-with-cms

Key Takeaways

• CMS-native search works for simple use cases but lacks typo tolerance, faceting, and relevance tuning
• Dedicated search services (Algolia, Meilisearch, Typesense) provide production-grade search with minimal infrastructure
• Sync CMS content to a search index via webhooks so the index stays current when content is published or deleted
• Client-side search with Fuse.js or Pagefind works well for static sites with small content sets
• Search UX features—autocomplete, facets, highlighted snippets—require a dedicated search layer