Soltech LLC

What e-commerce platform or framework are you using?

A lot of this depends on what your infrastructure already supports. Either of the options are a great choice so it comes down to what will be easiest to integrate and which search service is most affordable.

Elastic search is open source but you will need to configure and maintain it on your server. It may be more difficult to set up depending on the platform your app is built on.

Algolia has great documentation and is normally pretty easy to integrate but it can be pretty expensive.

I've never used Typsense but it seems like it would be a great option as well.

Tailwind is being used on a lot of large websites and is a great option.

That being said, make sure you compile and purge assets, as stated in tailwind docs, or, no, it will not perform well at all.

I love Nuxt. I'm using it for my own personal portfolio site, and as soon as I get the chance, I'm going to be utilizing it for a few of my clients site's as well as my own company's website.

As already mentioned, Nuxt is super easy to configure to build statically. The great thing about this is that api calls will all be made on the backend when your site is being built when content is released.

One thing that I recommend using a webhook to build your site statically each time content is updated in the CMS. In Netlify, these are called "build hooks", and pretty incredible to integrate.

I recommend checking out Algolia.

They have a very affordable entry-level plan and even a small, free level plan for new websites.

Their JavaScript API is pretty simple to implement as well.

I’d be happy to help set this up for you if you would like some help. I am booked through middle of February but I open up later next month.