Awesome Algolia Updates (and some fixes here…) / / No Comments I’ve been a huge fan, and user, of Algolia for a while now. I first wrote about it back in 2020 when I described how I added Algolia search to Eleventy. Later on, I described how one might migrate to Algolia from Lunr. All in all, I’ve been very happy with Algolia and my usage on this blog. Honestly, I feel like I’m the only one who makes use of my search page but I do so nearly daily so it’s critical to me. (And recently, a friend reached out specifically about my search and I’ll discuss that below.) The only real issue I ran into when using Algolia here was the size of my content. Algolia’s free tier maxed out at ten thousand records. That’s very generous... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Algolia, awesome, Fixes, Here, Some, updates
How to Migrate from Lunr to Algolia – a Technical Guide / / No Comments Search is an incredibly important aspect of any site hosting even a small amount ofcontent. How quickly your site can provide search results and how well your resultsmatch the user’s intent is critical. There are multiple search options available fordevelopers, and so sometimes in the pursuit of speed and relevance, a site will migratefrom one service to another. In this article, I’m going to present a use case for why a sitemay move from a self-hosted solution like Lunr to a server-based solution like Algolia. I want to stress that this is not meant to be an attack on Lunr, but more where it would beappropriate for a site and what the benefits... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Algolia, from, Guide, Lunr, Migrate, Technical
An example of Algolia Search with Alpine.js / / No Comments As my readers know, I’ve been falling in love with Alpine.js lately and am always on the hunt for more ways to practice using the framework. I thought I’d share an example of how you could use it with Algolia’s JavaScript client. I use that on my search page here with Vue.js, so it wasn’t a terribly difficult thing to rebuild a similar interface in Alpine.js. Here’s how I did it. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Algolia, Alpine.js, example, search