Pagefind: Understanding the difference in behavior between the playground and the UI

[BouzelatTarek]

Hello,

When testing the same search on the Pagefind playground and on our PagefindUI, we observe different results for some terms.

Example:

• Test with “marie” on the playground: https://rdf.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/garance/pagefind/playground/
• Versus the same test with “marie” on the UI: https://rdf.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/garance/pages/fr/search/

The playground returns different results compared to the UI.
Both use the same Pagefind configuration :

ranking: {
       termFrequency: 1.0,
       termSimilarity: 8.0,
       pageLength: 0.0,
       termSaturation: 1.4,
       },

Could this be due to a difference between the search implementation in the playground and the PagefindUI ?

[bglw]

Hi! Thanks for the report — this surprises me! I'll look into it more, the intention is that these should behave the same.

[bglw]

I haven't had a change to look into this yet, but I would be curious whether this is reproducible on the latest Pagefind Beta. It blanket-fixed a lot of bugs in this space, so I'm hopeful 😅