Building a Simple Search Engine from Scratch: A Practical Alternative to Complex Solutions

Why not just use Elasticsearch? or What about Algolia? Those are valid options, but they come with complexity.

Sometimes you just want something that works with your existing database, respects your current architecture, and gives you full control over how it works.

The concept is simple: tokenize everything, store it, then match tokens when searching.

You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance.

Dead simple to understand and maintain.