Testing Your Documentation Search
summary
Shows how to configure Algolia scraper to crawl a static docs site (example yields 11 records for two pages, full scrape adds ~21,000 records in two minutes), drop that index into an Angular.io widget, and verify search with Cypress intercept tests that either stub fixtures or spy the live search JSON. Tests assert column counts, specific result titles, link navigation, and detect regressions from weekly “no results” reports; CI run via GitHub Actions.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:02Business funnel and customer dropouts
- 4:57Documentation’s role in success
- 10:18Optimizing documentation structure
- 11:45Setting up Algolia search
- 16:24Testing documentation search
- 21:21Tips for better search scraping
- 22:45Handling no-result queries
- 23:28Terminal search utility
- 24:52Testing and conclusion
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