Integrate Elastic Search with Node.js
Tanzeel Ur Rehman
Posted on December 18, 2022
Elasticsearch is a powerful search engine that can be easily integrated into a Node.js application to provide advanced search functionality. Here's how you can do it:
- Install the Elasticsearch library: The first step is to install the Elasticsearch library for Node.js using the npm package manager. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
npm install elasticsearch
2.
Connect to the Elasticsearch cluster: Next, you'll need to create a client object that can connect to your Elasticsearch cluster. You can do this by importing the Elasticsearch library and creating a new client object, like this:
const { Client } = require('elasticsearch');
const client = new Client({
host: 'localhost:9200',
});
3.
Index some data: Now that you're connected to the Elasticsearch cluster, you can start indexing some data. You can do this using the index() method, like this:
client.index({
index: 'my-index',
type: 'my-type',
body: {
title: 'My Document',
content: 'This is the content of my document',
},
});
4.
Search for data: Once you've indexed some data, you can use the Elasticsearch query language to search for specific documents. You can do this using the search() method, like this:
client.search({
index: 'my-index',
type: 'my-type',
body: {
query: {
match: {
title: 'my document',
},
},
},
}).then((response) => {
console.log(response.hits.hits);
});
These are the basic steps for integrating Elasticsearch with a Node.js application. Of course, there are many more advanced features that you can use, such as aggregations, faceting, and more. You can learn more about these features in the Elasticsearch documentation.
Posted on December 18, 2022
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