Searchkit 0.8 – React UI Components for Elasticsearch

Searchkit 0.8 – React UI Components for Elasticsearch(blog.searchkit.co)

108 points by joemcelroy 10 years ago | 9 comments

diminish 10 years ago |

Noob Question; how do we ensure that full query interface of elasticsearh isn't exposed to the browsers?

PS: I m using elasticsearch in the backend.

Fennhella 10 years ago | |

You could proxy using nginx to allow read only access to specific endpoints, there's a few good posts about it going into better detail than me, for example:

http://blog.eagerelk.com/securing-elasticsearch-using-nginx-...

joemcelroy 10 years ago | |

We proxy the elasticsearch connection through the server and sanitize the request. Some installations also add more filters like permissions filter.

In future releases, we're going to improve on this. Stay tuned!

ssetem 10 years ago | |

http://docs.searchkit.co/stable/docs/server/searchkit_expres...

we ship a node.js proxy to hide your elastic instance, and you can add permission filters etc.

Asparagirl 10 years ago |

This looks great! But could it be modified to work off of an Apache Solr backend instead? If not, do you know a similarly nice group of front-end components for Solr?

ssetem 10 years ago | |

Thanks, solr support is a possiblity, we will probably take a look in the future

Fennhella 10 years ago |

Very similar instantsearch.js (which is also react components) for Algolia search.

Having this for elasticsearch is very useful indeed, get products out there with a consistent search UI.

thangngoc89 10 years ago | |

Yes, instantsearch.js is built on top of React. But it's not a React component yet.

See https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/issues/920

vvoyer 10 years ago | | |

Indeed we are working to provide it as React components also. Thanks for the mention :)