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⚡ How to integrate a front-end search bar in your Vue application using Meilisearch

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This repository describes the steps to integrate a relevant front-end search bar with a search-as-you-type experience!

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🔧 Installation
🤘 Getting Started Vue 2
🤟 Getting Started Vue 3
👩‍🎨 Examples
💅 Customization and Documentation

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🔧 Installation

To integrate a front-end search bar, you need to install two packages:

the open-source Vue InstantSearch library powered by Algolia that provides all the front-end tools you need to highly customize your search bar environment.
the Meilisearch client instant-meilisearch to establish the communication between your Meilisearch instance and the Vue InstantSearch library.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, we have opted to reuse the InstantSearch library for our own front-end tooling. We will contribute upstream any improvements that may result from our adoption of InstantSearch.

Run:

yarn add vue-instantsearch @meilisearch/instant-meilisearch instantsearch.css
# or
npm install vue-instantsearch @meilisearch/instant-meilisearch instantsearch.css

NB: If you don't have any Meilisearch instance running and containing your data, you should take a look at this getting started page.

🤘 Getting Started Vue 2

The following getting started uses Vue 2. A Vue 2 example is provided here.

In the main.js file:

import Vue from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue';
import InstantSearch from 'vue-instantsearch';

Vue.use(InstantSearch);

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  render: h => h(App),
});

In the App.vue file:

<template>
  <ais-instant-search :search-client="searchClient" index-name="steam-video-games">
    <ais-search-box />
    <ais-hits>
      <div slot="item" slot-scope="{ item }">
        <h2>{{ item.name }}</h2>
      </div>
    </ais-hits>
  </ais-instant-search>
</template>

<script>
import { instantMeiliSearch } from '@meilisearch/instant-meilisearch';

export default {
  data() {
    return {
      searchClient: instantMeiliSearch(
        "https://ms-adf78ae33284-106.lon.meilisearch.io",
        "a63da4928426f12639e19d62886f621130f3fa9ff3c7534c5d179f0f51c4f303",
      ),
    };
  },
};
</script>

<style>
body {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  padding: 1em;
}
</style>

🤟 Getting Started Vue 3

The following getting started uses Vue 3. A Vue 3 example is provided here.

In the main.js file:

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import InstantSearch from 'vue-instantsearch/vue3/es';

createApp(App)
    .use(InstantSearch)
    .mount('#app')

In the App.vue file:

<template>
  <ais-instant-search
    :search-client="searchClient"
    index-name="steam-video-games"
  >
    <ais-search-box />
    <ais-hits>
      <template v-slot:item="{ item }">
        <ais-highlight :hit="item" attribute="name" />
      </template>
    </ais-hits>
  </ais-instant-search>
</template>

<script>
import { instantMeiliSearch } from "@meilisearch/instant-meilisearch";
import "instantsearch.css/themes/algolia-min.css";


export default {
  data() {
    return {
      searchClient: instantMeiliSearch(
        "https://ms-adf78ae33284-106.lon.meilisearch.io",
        "a63da4928426f12639e19d62886f621130f3fa9ff3c7534c5d179f0f51c4f303",
      ).searchClient,
    };
  },
};
</script>

👩‍🎨 Examples

🚀 For a full example, please take a look at this CodeSandbox:

For Vue 2

For Vue 3

💡 If you have never used Vue InstantSearch before, we recommend reading this getting started documentation.

💅 Customization and Documentation

The open-source Vue InstantSearch library is widely used and well documented in the Algolia documentation. It provides all the widgets to customize and improve your search bar environment in your Vue application.
The instant-meilisearch documentation to add some customization.
The Meilisearch documentation.

Meilisearch provides and maintains many SDKs and Integration tools like this one. We want to provide everyone with an amazing search experience for any kind of project. If you want to contribute, make suggestions, or just know what's going on right now, visit us in the integration-guides repository.

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