Allow "Filters" in PagefindUI? about pagefind HOT 6 OPEN

Yes that's certainly possible, I'll look at adding that 🙂

How do you want the UI to then handle that filter? Options:

1. The Type filter group is shown in the search UI. Events is pre-selected
2. The Type filter group is shown in the search UI. Events is forced on and not shown in the list of options.
3. The Type filter group is hidden altogether in the search UI.

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Fascinating approaches!

I'd say that most ideal, is:

• If we've specified a single value in the Type filter, it shouldn't even list the other "types".
• If we've mentioned multiple Types, it should show only those values in the dropdown?

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Thanks, I think that sounds like a good approach 🙂 I'll look at this in the near future

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Maybe general faceted navigation would make sense for Pagefind.

You can see a (very crude) implementation here: https://2ality.com/archive.html

In this case, the facets are: Year, Month, Tag.

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@rauschma as far as I can tell the underlying structure of Pagefind's filters supports a faceted navigation approach yes? So this would only impact the UI library.

I think for this kind of change I would really like to have a showcase of Pagefind UI widgets that can be used in place of the builtin widget, which saves the default from having to cater to every use case (and could also provide framework-specific components)

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@bglw Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

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