0.3.0 fixes lots niggles with indexing, and gives a pretty hefty improvement to memory usage. There is also a built in matcher for creating cool auto-suggest and auto-complete controls based on the content of the corpus.

In related news there is now a family of crawling tools which allow you to scrape, process and index web content into your Forage server. Check out forage-fetch, forage-document-processor and forage-indexer on the forage.js GitHub group.

As always, feedback, pull requests, comments, praise, criticism and beer are most welcome.

Handlebars provides the power necessary to let you build semantic templates effectively with no frustration.

Handlebars.js has become the defacto standard for templating in JavaScript, filling the void left from the abandonment and non-replacement of the jQuery template project. Handlebars.js is an implementation of the mighty platform-independant mustache project

JavaScript templating makes it a lot easier to implement cool interface functionality on your search result page such as responsive design, autoscrolling and more. Handlebars make JS templating a cinch.

You get the benefit of Handlebars.js on webpages that have a lot of repeating code such as lists, search-results and libraries.

In order to see Solr and Handlebars.js in action click here or copy and paste the code below into an empty .html file.

<b>Handlebars.js and Solr Demo</b><br>
Type in something reutersey and click the <b>search</b> button!<br>
<input id="searchterm" />
<button id="search">search</button>
<div id="rs"></div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.0.0.beta6/handlebars.min.js"></script>
<script id="hit-template" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
  <div class="entry">
    <b>{{title}}</b><br>
    {{text}}
  </div>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
  var hitTemplate = Handlebars.compile($("#hit-template").html());
  $("#search").click(function(){
    $("#rs").empty();
    $.getJSON("http://evolvingweb.ca/solr/reuters/select/?q=" + $("#searchterm").val() + "&wt=json&json.wrf=?&indent=true", function(result){
      for (var i = 0; i < result.response.docs.length; i++) {
        $("#rs").append(hitTemplate({title: result.response.docs[i].title, text: result.response.docs[i].text}));
      }
    });
  });
</script>