hound-search/hound

Search Performance and UX, feature request: results paging

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#394 opened on Apr 3, 2021

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Description

I have about 900 repos ( ~1M LoC ) indexed. Search performance is very variable. It feels fairly snappy when searching for larger specific strings with fewer matches; but is extremely slow for generic small snippet searches with lots of hits.

for example searching for foo in my setup returns 131,549ms total / 4,739ms server / 3477 files The actual server side search is an impressive 4 seconds, but I see a spinner on the UI until the entire 154 MB of search results are transferred back - well over 2 mins! And then there's the bogged down browser from displaying all the results at once.

Paging and/or lazy loading would go a long way in improving user experience and perceived performance

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Research direction
Investigate current search result handling in the UI and implement pagination or lazy loading for search results to improve performance.
Tech stack
javascriptnodejs
Domain
backendfrontend
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2
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Active
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Clear
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JavaScriptNode.js
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60