Add full profile search

[nylen]

This pull request modifies the "filter" box on the list homepage to search through all company profile data.

You can read more about how the search works here: https://blog.remoteintech.company/search-help/ This page is also linked from the "More info" text at the search box.

• Closes Expand the Search scope to all of the profile rather than name and region #584
• Closes Add a filter for "needs more info" #462 (search for _incomplete as mentioned in the search documentation)
• Workaround/alternative to multiple other requested enhancements including Add filters for company technologies #464, Normalise regions #485, Add Category for filtering #569

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Try it first!

You can try this before it's merged by going here: https://deploy-preview-763--remote-jobs.netlify.app/ Please let me know if you see any issues.

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[nylen]

@dougaitken I guess I need to fix the bot before this is merged, otherwise it will probably keep causing problems later on. Please do try out the search though, it's ready to play with at https://deploy-preview-763--remote-jobs.netlify.app/

I also see "Loading search data... Infinity%" when this is hosted on Netlify. I'll fix that in this PR too.

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[nylen]

OK, this is all good from my end.

[dougaitken]

Flipping 'eck.

This is incredible. Are you using offline workers or something for the search?

I can't break it so let's do this.

I think for #464 and #569 we could maybe add things like region: type fitlers like how GitHub and other places use search terms? That said, this is such a huge improvement. Thank you so much.

[nylen]

Glad you like it, I had fun building it.

Are you using offline workers or something for the search?

It's using https://lunrjs.com/ which if I remember correctly is the same library that Calypso devdocs uses. The new code here uses Lunr to generate an index of all the data every time the site gets built. The index is just a different way to organize the data so that it can be searched quickly - basically a map of all the words that appear in our data and where they can be found. Then when you start searching on the site, it downloads the latest index data and the actual searching happens in your browser using that index.

we could maybe add things like region: type filters

Good thing to look into for a future enhancement. This already works pretty well though - if you search for "react" then you're going to get all the companies that use React.