albert-gonzalez / express-autocomplete

Server side Autocomplete example with Express.js, Elasticsearch and Docker

Express Autocomplete Server

Server side Autocomplete example with Express.js, Elasticsearch and Docker. Frontend side done with vue.js and Foundation. The example game list is from GiantBomb

Install

• clone this repo
• cd name-of-the-project-folder
• Run the containers with docker-compose up
• Create the elasticsearch schema and load the documents with elasticsearch/script/init.sh
• Build the frontend app with docker-compose exec node npm run build
• open http://localhost:8888 in the browser to try the example

Server Endpoints

• /api/load: Load the documents from the file node/app/data/games.json
• /api/autocomplete: Search in the elastic index
• /: Autocomplete example page