Fix search threshold

_TODO.md

@@ -321,14 +321,6 @@ The bigger problem on this homepage is still total shipped JS and chunk fan-out,
 
 If you want, I can next turn that into a plain-English takeaway for your _TODO.md, like: "fan-out is the main issue; dependency waterfall is present but shallow."
 
-### Search page
-
-One route that is dynamic now but probably does not need to be:
-
-/search
-
-It is currently marked prerender = false in index.astro:2, but the UI is already client-driven. index.astro:8 reads q, and the real search happens through the action in action.ts:12. That means /search can very likely be a static shell page and let the client read window.location.search and call the action. So I would not keep this dynamic unless you specifically want SSR-rendered search results for SEO.
-
 ### Tags page
 
 One caution:
@@ -341,7 +333,6 @@ In src/pages/tags/[tag].astro, the route sets ITEMS_PER_PAGE = 12, then reads th
 
 src/pages/tags/[tag].astro
 
-
 const currentPage = parseInt(Astro.url.searchParams.get('page') || '1')
 It uses that value to:
 

package.json

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     "lint:actions": "FORCE_COLOR=1 npx node-actionlint && FORCE_COLOR=1 python3 -m pylint $(find .github/actions -type f -path '*/src/*.py')",
     "lint:code": "npx eslint \"@types/**/*.{js,ts}\" \"src/**/*.{js,ts,tsx,astro}\" \"test/**/*.{js,ts,tsx,astro}\"",
     "lint:inclusive-language": "npx alex src/content",
-    "lint:json": "FORCE_COLOR=1 npx prettier \"**/*.json\" --cache --check --ignore-path .gitignore --ignore-path .prettierignore",
+    "lint:json": "FORCE_COLOR=1 npx prettier \"**/*.json\" '!**/www.*.json' --cache --check --ignore-path .gitignore --ignore-path .prettierignore",
     "lint:md": "FORCE_COLOR=1 npx markdownlint-cli2 \"**/*.{md,mdx}\" \"!**/node_modules/**\" \"!**/dist/**\" \"!**/.astro/**\" \"!**/dev-dist/**\" \"!**/__blobstorage__/**\"",
     "lint:style": "FORCE_COLOR=1 npx stylelint \"src/**/*.{css,astro}\"",
     "lint:tsc:check": "npm run sync && tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json --pretty false",

src/actions/search/__tests__/responder.spec.ts

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ describe('mapUpstashSearchResults', () => {
     const raw = [
       {
         id: 'doc-1',
-        score: 0.39,
+        score: 0.009,
         content: {
           url: '/articles/low-score',
           title: 'Low Score',
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('mapUpstashSearchResults', () => {
       },
       {
         id: 'doc-2',
-        score: 0.4,
+        score: 0.01,
         content: {
           url: '/articles/high-enough',
           title: 'High Enough',
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ describe('mapUpstashSearchResults', () => {
 
     expect(hits).toHaveLength(1)
     expect(hits[0]?.title).toBe('High Enough')
-    expect(hits[0]?.score).toBe(0.4)
+    expect(hits[0]?.score).toBe(0.01)
   })
 
   it('deduplicates hits that resolve to the same canonical path', () => {

src/actions/search/responder.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import type { DefaultSearchResult, SearchHit } from '@actions/search/@types'
 
-const MIN_RELEVANCY_SCORE = 0.4
+// Upstash reranking now returns normalized scores where strong matches commonly
+// land well below 0.4. Keep a small floor to drop near-zero noise while still
+// surfacing legitimate results.
+const MIN_RELEVANCY_SCORE = 0.01
 
 const getCanonicalResultPath = (url: string): string => {
   try {

src/components/Search/SearchResults/client/__tests__/index.spec.ts

@@ -296,4 +296,29 @@ describe('SearchResults web component', () => {
       }
     )
   })
+
+  it('seeds the initial query from the location when the rendered input starts empty', async () => {
+    searchQueryMock.mockResolvedValue({
+      data: {
+        hits: [
+          {
+            title: 'Astro Search',
+            url: '/articles/astro-search',
+            snippet: '...',
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+
+    await runComponentRender({ query: '' }, async ({ element, window }) => {
+      window.history.replaceState(window.history.state, '', '/search?q=astro')
+
+      await (element as unknown as { run: () => Promise<void> }).run()
+      await flushMicrotasks()
+
+      const input = element.querySelector('[data-search-input]') as HTMLInputElement | null
+      expect(input?.value).toBe('astro')
+      expect(searchQueryMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ q: 'astro', limit: 20 })
+    })
+  })
 })

src/components/Search/SearchResults/client/index.ts

@@ -106,10 +106,31 @@ export class SearchResultsElement extends LitElement {
     this.micBtn = micBtn
     this.clearBtn = clearBtn
 
+    this.syncInitialQueryState()
     this.updateClearButtonVisibility()
     this.updateMicButtonVisibility()
   }
 
+  private getInitialQuerySeed(): string {
+    return (this.query ?? '').trim() || this.getQueryFromLocation()
+  }
+
+  private syncInitialQueryState(): void {
+    const initialQuery = this.getInitialQuerySeed()
+
+    if (!initialQuery) {
+      return
+    }
+
+    if (!this.query?.trim()) {
+      this.query = initialQuery
+    }
+
+    if (this.input && this.input.value.trim().length === 0) {
+      this.input.value = initialQuery
+    }
+  }
+
   private attachListeners(): void {
     if (!this.input || !this.form || !this.micBtn || !this.clearBtn) {
       return
@@ -509,8 +530,18 @@ export class SearchResultsElement extends LitElement {
     this.startSpeechRecognition()
   }
 
-  private async run(queryOverride?: string): Promise<void> {
+  private resolveRunQuery(queryOverride?: string): string {
     const query = (queryOverride ?? this.getQuery()).trim()
+
+    if (query.length > 0 || typeof queryOverride === 'string') {
+      return query
+    }
+
+    return this.getInitialQuerySeed()
+  }
+
+  private async run(queryOverride?: string): Promise<void> {
+    const query = this.resolveRunQuery(queryOverride)
     this.query = query
     this.clearError()
     this.replaceLocationQuery(query)

src/pages/search/index.astro

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 ---
-export const prerender = false
+export const prerender = true
 
 import PageLayout from '@layouts/PageLayout.astro'
 import SearchResults from '@components/Search/SearchResults/index.astro'
 
-const query = (Astro.url.searchParams.get('q') ?? '').trim()
-
 const pageTitle = 'Search'
 const pageDescription = 'Search the Site'
 const path = '/search'
@@ -19,6 +17,6 @@ const path = '/search'
   path={path}
 >
   <div class="max-w-4xl mx-auto">
-    <SearchResults query={query} />
+    <SearchResults />
   </div>
 </PageLayout>

test/unit/helpers/litRuntime.ts

@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ export const renderInJsdom = async <TModule extends WebComponentModule>(
 	const { container, component, args, moduleLoader, selector, waitForReady = defaultWaitForReady, assert } = _options
 
 	await withJsdomEnvironment(async ({ window }) => {
+		window.history.replaceState(window.history.state, '', 'http://localhost/')
+
 		const module = await moduleLoader()
 		await module.registerWebComponent(module.registeredName)