fbertetto / itemsapi

Simplier version of Elasticsearch. Designed for prototyping catalogs, meta search engines, marketplaces

ItemsAPI - search backend

ItemsAPI - auto-generated search API in Node.js and Elasticsearch. It was created because Elasticsearch was too difficult. The idea was also create it as a microservice and run easily on different environments.

Purposes

• lists and catalogs (restaurants, movies, gyms, doctors, places)
• prototyping booking systems and marketplaces

Features

• full text searching
• aggregations / faceted search
• similar items (collaborative filtering algorithm)
• seo optimized - generating nice urls for fields (permalinks)
• geo sorting
• auto generating API based on your json data

Getting started

• https://www.itemsapi.com/docs/itemsapi/overview/

Use cases

• Catalog of skilled software development companies from Europe

Contribution recommendations

• Code evolution is better than code revolution
• Tests are very welcome
• Quality of code is important but developer experience (DX) is a top!
• https://www.itemsapi.com/docs/philosophy-and-methodology

License

ItemsAPI is created by Mateusz Rzepa and licensed under the Apache 2.0. For more information, see the LICENSE file in this repository.