Federated Search with Typesense

This is a demo that showcases Typesense's Federated or Multi-Search feature.

View it live here: https://federated-search.typesense.org/

Dataset

The dataset of company names and usernames was generated using faker.js.

Tech Stack

This search experience is powered by Typesense which is a fast, open source typo-tolerant search-engine. It is an open source alternative to Algolia and an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch.

The app was built using the Typesense Adapter for InstantSearch.js and is hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

The search backend is powered by a geo-distributed 3-node Typesense cluster running on Typesense Cloud, with nodes in Oregon, Frankfurt and Mumbai.

Repo structure

• src/ and index.html - contain the frontend UI components, built with Typesense Adapter for InstantSearch.js
• scripts/ - contains the scripts to extract, transform and index the data into Typesense.

Development

1. Create a .env file using .env.example as reference.

2. Generate and index data

yarn indexData

4. Install dependencies and run the local server:

yarn
yarn start

Open http://localhost:3000 to see the app.

Deployment

The app is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and is set to auto-deploy on git push