Add highlighting in results

[sylvinus]

Having parts of the results which matched in bold is a great visual aid.

An open question is: should we highlight results from the API as well? Or is that left to the client (in that case, to our JavaScript as well) ?

[JBaba]

I think If we choose to do it in JavaScript then it comes to do post processing (after all search results are rendered).
But if it comes from the api then I think even static links will have that functionalities that's a plus. (am i wrong here ?)
one question when you say API means you are referring to GoLang or Python ?

[sylvinus]

Yes, static links should be as close in functionality as possible, so we probably want to do this at the API / Go level, not JavaScript.

[JBaba]

@sylvinus for this I am thinking doing something like this,

hitsByIds[hit.Id] = &Hit{
            ID:     ---,
            URL:    ----,   
            Title:   strings.Replace(hitsByIds[hit.Id].Title, " "+req.Query+" ", " <b>"+req.Query+"</b> ",-1),
            Summary: strings.Replace(hitsByIds[hit.Id].Summary, " "+req.Query+" ", " <b>"+req.Query+"</b> ",-1)}

This does not replaces map value but however,
If i run independent line it gives me proper replaced text,

fmt.Println(strings.Replace(hitsByIds[hit.Id].Title, " "+req.Query+" ", " <b>"+req.Query+"</b> ",-1))

Am i doing something wrong ? or you suggest this approach or something else ?

[sylvinus]

This is a good start! You should really have a separate AddHighlighting() function that will grow over time as we include more improvements and edge cases!