You can use bloop in the browser, without running the Tauri app. First follow the steps to install and run the search server. Make sure that API_URL is set in .env (e.g. API_URL=http://localhost:7878/api). Then, in the root directory run:
npm install
npm run start-web
Open localhost:5173 in a browser and, hey presto, you've got bloop in the browser.