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This would be nice as an Astro (or generic meta-framework plugin) that automatically parses all generated html files and generates a small db of embeddings.

This way on the frontend you can lazily load this. Maybe you could even store the HNSW in chunks and just load the pieces you need for your specific search query.

i.e. like https://pagefind.app/ but to get fully static vector search.

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We really wanted to use sqlite-vec for this for our SSG but last we checked it hadn’t implemented HNSW/had good support for running vector search in-browser yet (I think it was still doing full-table scans?). I was pretty disappointed because after so many months/years, to not have that suggested to me that they weren’t up to task of delivering on their project, and I had recommended them as a worthy project for a grant I had also applied for, that they won and I didn’t.

If anybody knows of a good solution in this space, or if I’m wrong about SQLite-vec, please let me know. For our own SSG we’ve basically decided that we’ll give it a couple months while we work on other infra we want, then if they’re still not done we’ll just do it ourselves.

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