feat: add "/" keyboard shortcut to focus search

[PalashKulkarni]

Description

Adds a global / keyboard shortcut to quickly focus the website search bar across documentation and blog pages. This improves navigation speed and accessibility by allowing users to start searching without manually clicking the search input.

Fixes #1800

Type of Change

• New feature (e.g., new page, component, or functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• UI/UX improvement (design, layout, or styling updates)
• Performance optimization (e.g., code splitting, caching)
• Documentation update (README, contribution guidelines, etc.)
• Other (please specify):

Changes Made

• Added a global keydown listener to handle the / keyboard shortcut.

• Focuses the search input when / is pressed anywhere on the site.

• Supports both documentation and blog search inputs.

• Prevents the shortcut from triggering while the user is typing inside:

  • input
  • textarea
  • select
  • contenteditable elements

• Prevents the / character from being inserted when the shortcut activates.

• Added proper cleanup for event listeners to avoid duplicate handlers and memory leaks.

• Preserved all existing search functionality and keyboard interactions.

Dependencies

• No new dependencies added.
• No version updates required.
• No additional configuration changes required.

Checklist

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project.
• I have tested my changes across major browsers and devices.
• My changes do not generate new console warnings or errors.
• I ran npm run build and attached screenshot(s) in this PR.
• This is already assigned Issue to me, not an unassigned issue.

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✅ Synchronized metadata from Issue #1800:

• Labels: level 1, recode, Enhacement, high priority, level2, medium, gssoc:approved
• Milestone: recode:launch 3.0

[PalashKulkarni]

Hi @maintainers,

I've completed the implementation for Issue #1800 and submitted a PR for review.

Summary of Changes

• Added a global / keyboard shortcut to focus the search bar.
• Supports both documentation and blog search inputs.
• Prevents triggering while typing in inputs, textareas, selects, or contenteditable elements.
• Preserves existing search functionality and keyboard interactions.
• Includes proper event listener cleanup to avoid memory leaks.

I've tested the feature locally and verified the expected behavior across the relevant pages.

Could you please review the PR and let me know if any changes are needed? If everything looks good, I'd appreciate it if it could be merged.

Thank you for your time and feedback!

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[sanjay-kv]

check the deployment its aint working.

[iitzIrFan]

We already have Ctrl + K for this use case, so adding another entry point would duplicate functionality without much benefit.