Instant search

[sean.doldersum]

Hi all ,

I’m currently looking at creating a website with a custom ecommerce part. In this site it’s mandatory that we have an instant search from te header. So there is an input and underneath should appear the results.

And if possible, they would like to be able to search the site (information only) or the eccommerce part (products only, about 60.000, with synonyms) using a select.

Are there any packages available or are people aware of react components that could help me?

At this moment I’ve not started working on it so I could fit in anything actually

Let’s do this, shall we?!

[403page]

Interesting. I was just considering testing out elasticsearch with fronitity earlier today. Have you ever used that before in a “classic” wordpress setup?

[sean.doldersum]

@403page No I haven’t. When using Woocommerce I used to use Yith Woocommerce ajax search. Could you explain it a bit?

[juanma]

There are some new resources that may be helpful for this thread:

The latest version of the package @frontity/wp-source now allows to add headers to requests which is very handy for access protected endpoints (like the ones WooCommerce has)

Auth header in Source packages and Frontity Query Options

Description Source packages should be able to access custom headers that they must send when requesting data from the APIs. Examples The most obvious example is the Authorization header: Basic Auth: Authorization: Basic YWFhOmJiYg JWT Auth: Authorization: Bearer XXXXX.YYYYY.ZZZZZ Possible solution (not finally used) We could use state.source.headers for this. If a user needs to add headers for a specific site, they can do so in their frontity.settings.js file. If a package needs to s…

Also, @taylorl and @nicholasio.oliveira from 10up have developed the plugin @10up/frontity-elasticpress to interact with an ElasticSearch DB