Add Search To a Hugo Site With Fuse.js

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The search begins.

Today I added search on my Hugo static site with Fuse.js. I am unreasonably excited about this for kind of a negative reason:

I’ve had a lot, A LOT of recent experience with a static site that had pretty disappointing search capability.

I found Fuse.js in Blowfish - a really thoughtful & nice looking Hugo theme that I probably would have used for my site if I’d discovered it early.

Fuse.js on nonpunctual