Expand the Search scope to all of the profile rather than name and region

[dougaitken]

Related to #569

Currently, when someone wants to search the list, they are limited to name and region. Having the ability to search the whole profile would allow for filtering by technology or another keyword.

[whatacold]

Just being curious, where can we search these data from? It takes a lot of time for me to see every company's websites :(.

Edit: Just found out that there are more details about every company in the company-profiles directory, cool!

[noobyogi0010]

Hey @dougaitken !
I would like to work on this by adding additional filtering in search. Can you please tell me how to get started with contributing?
Thanks.

[dougaitken]

Hey @noobyogi0010 - @nylen is best to confirm but I'm unsure how this should be done. Currently it is a search/filter happening here - https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/blob/master/site/assets/companies-table.js

For context, this list is compiled into a static site that lives on Netlify.

[nylen]

Hi @noobyogi0010, you can see the documentation for how the site is currently built here: https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/tree/master/site

In order to solve this issue, you'll need to make the data (text) from the rest of the company profile available to the search function on the main page. This is the companies-table.js code that Doug mentioned.

I'm not sure the best way to make this work. It will require some custom code and perhaps changing the library that is used for the search.