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The search index built in three seconds. Five phases made that possible.
Pagefind took an afternoon to wire up. The navigation phases before it took a week. A search index returns what’s there — and what needed to be there first was structure.
Prerequisite chips, scroll-spy TOC, and Pagefind: the trio that closed the learning hub nav spec
Seven phases of navigation work landed on the learning hub over two days. Phases P0 through P4 were infrastructure. P5 and P6 changed what the property felt like to use — and both were in the spec from day one.
A static site has no server to search. So I indexed the output instead.
There is no query endpoint on a statically-exported site, no database, nothing to ask at request time. Full-text search still works, because you index the HTML the build already produced.
Prerequisite chips were the highest-leverage fix. They shipped fifth.
The navigation spec for captainrandom’s learning hub named the N1 prerequisite chips the single highest-value browsability improvement. They shipped in Phase 5 of 7. Course sidebar, in-chapter TOC, prerequisite chips, and site-wide Pagefind each close a different kind of lost — and the order they can ship in is a dependency graph, not a priority list.