745845 - Stack search should happen more frequently then web search

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Pancake Graveyard :: Front-end, enhancement)

Description

[Gordon Brander :gordonb]

Since stack search is a query against the Pancake database and is so much faster than Bing search, let's decrease the fetch timeout for stack search to make it near-real-time.

Comment 1

[Gordon Brander :gordonb]

So here's the plan:

* Instead of creating and throwing away search views and models, share the same stack collection and bing search collection, changing the search URL. `fetch` with the `diff` option set to `true`.
* Ditto search and stack views: create once, and allow rendering to happen via events on the changing collection.
* Create a function that creates the search view from sub-views, configures it and memoizes the result so the function is safe to call many times without a performance drain.
* Create debounced fetch method for the collections, debouncing search and stack at different rates.

Comment 2

[Gordon Brander :gordonb]

Track progress here: https://bitbucket.org/mozillapancake/pancake/changesets/tip/branch%28%22live-search-stacks-collection%22%29

Comment 3

[Gordon Brander :gordonb]

Further experience polish is needed, but this is working as of https://bitbucket.org/mozillapancake/pancake/changeset/69ce1253b22e