Demo for Blog Search

A search for blogs built using Typesense engine as backend and Typesense-Instantsearch-adapter for UI.

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Each document for the search engine collection should follow the below Schema:

{
  { name: 'title', type: 'string' },
  { name: 'category', type: 'string' },
  { name: 'url', type: 'string' },
  { name: 'description', type: 'string' },
  { name: 'text', type: 'string' },
  { name: 'read_time', type: 'int32' },
  { name: 'aud', type: 'string' }
}

• Download typesense-server for your platform from https://typesense.org/downloads/

• Create a data directory something like /tmp/typesense-data Make sure it is not deleted on reboot

• mkdir /tmp/typsense-data2

• Enter into a python venv

• cd blogSearch && npm i && bash libInstall.sh

• nohup typesense-server --data-dir=/tmp/typesense-data --api-key=xyz --listen-port 8108 --enable-cors &

• node deleteSchema.js blogs && node deleteSchema.js structuredResults

• node createSchemaBlogs.js && node createSchemaStructuredResults.js

• cd substacksearchengine

• python manager runserver

• python manage.py importAllSiteMaps <appropriate option>

• python manage.py importAllNewsletterPosts

• python manage.py postToTypeSense

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Frontend

• rm dist # If dist/ is already present
• parcel build index.html
• mv dist/ /var/www/blogSearch/

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Additionally, the number of documents in a collection can be viewed using:

node checkDocuments.js

A collection can be deleted using:

node deleteSchema.js <collection name>

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Nginx setup: CentOS/Linux/On Linode

• cp blogSearchNginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/blogSearchNginx.conf
• sudo systemctl stop nginx
• sudo systemctl start nginx
• systemctl status nginx.service
• setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

On Mac brew install nginx brew services start nginx

Follow this https://gist.github.com/jimothyGator/5436538

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The UI will be running on interviewblindspots.com/index.html

Homescreen

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Search Screen

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Happy Searching