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

108 points by joemcelroy 10y ago ↗ HN

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Fennhella 10y 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 10y 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 10y ago ↗

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

diminish 10y 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.

joemcelroy 10y 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!

Fennhella 10y 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-...

ssetem 10y 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 10y 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 10y ago ↗

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