I have built a nice search-engine template using Python Flask in the backend and providing faceted navigation in the frontend. The frontend was built using: http://materializecss.com/ This project might be interesting for you, if you want to build a lightweight searchengine with Flask on top… Read more
Configuring a mapping for ElasticSearch is not required. Per definition and as opposed to Solr, ElasticSearch is schemaless. If not defined, a mapping for a type is created on the fly, based on the first document that is being indexed. If another document that is… Read more
ElasticSearch with faceted navigation in 15 minutes ElasticUI is an awesome and very easy to setup framework that enables faceted navigation for ElasticSearch, written in AngularJS. http://www.elasticui.com/ I have created an extension, which is optimized for media-search. The design is pretty basic, but functional. All… Read more
I’ll show you how you can create a custom search-engine in 15 minutes and deploy it all for free! We’ll use ElasticSearch in the backend and a nice frontend built with AngularJs! The Backend First you’ll need a hosted ElasticSearch server: Please sign up here:… Read more
This blogpost describes how to install and secure ElasticSearch on a Digital Ocean Virtual Root Server. Setting up the server First of all you need to create a droplet on Digital Ocean. Therefore you have to register: https://www.digitalocean.com/ You can pay with your creditcard or… Read more