David Pine • 8/4/2026

Adding Full-Text Search to Blazor WebAssembly with Pagefind

This article explains how to integrate Pagefind, a client-side full-text search engine, into a Blazor WebAssembly application. It covers why Pagefind is suitable for client apps (no server, static index, WASM-based), the challenge of crawling a WASM app's runtime-generated DOM, and a solution using Pagefind's Node API to build an index from a custom content model. The guide includes build-time indexing and runtime querying via JavaScript interop, plus a discussion of prerendering as an alternative. Ideal for developers seeking to add search to Blazor WASM sites.

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#static site generation #blazor #Full Text Search