Building open source search app with Appwrite and Meilisearch

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Imagine you are building an inventory or an ecommerce website or a social media of your own, what are the two major things you will have to deal with? A. Database B. Search engine. By Haimantika Mitra.

This article deals with building a simple app where we search for movies, to achieve this we use:

  • Meilisearch- for building the search and
  • Appwrite - for the backend to store data and run functions to automate the search
  • Prerequisites
  • Creating an Appwrite function
  • Configuring the Appwrite function
  • Building the search app
  • Fetching data from Appwrite to MeiliSearch

Appwrite is a self-hosted backend-as-a-service platform that provides developers with all the core APIs required to build any application. Appwrite provides you with a set of APIs, tools, and a management console UI to help you build your apps a lot faster and in a much more secure way. Meilisearch is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use and deploy search engine. Both searching and indexing are highly customizable. Features such as typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms are provided out-of-the-box. Good read!

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