jekyll-search | Basic jekyll setup with search via json | JSON Processing library

I am trying to incorporate a search function into my Jekyll site. I therefor decided to go with with Simple-Jekyll-Search which can be found here: Link.

This is what my search.html looks like:

I'm using Jekyll and have a custom folder called docs with this structure:

The folder is organized as nested categories, but from what I understand from this pull request I can only have one extra level if I use collections_dir like this:

I'm creating an ARM Template to deploy both an Azure Search instance and a Function App that depends on the Azure Search instance. As part of that I'm trying to pre-populate the Function Apps app settings with the Search Service's API Key.

I'm doing this by adding the following into the value of one of the app settings of the FunctionAppSite:

I am using the Simple-Jekyll-Search library for a website I am currently building.

I want to have a feature where a user can click on a button (imagine tag or category buttons beneath the text input), and that automatically populates the search box with the corresponding tag name, and performs the search.

I have managed to achieve the first part of it by simply setting the search input's value to my desired text, and then I tried to trigger a various key events but unfortunately this doesn't seem to trigger the search. Of course, the search box works normally and results do appear when I type into it manually.

Looking at the library's source file, this seems to be the relevant part to trigger the search, but as far as I can see, I should just need to send a keyup event to the search input to trigger the search.