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Integrating Typesense API with Existing Set-up

TLDR Mubashirullah needed help with converting an API request to a typesense query and considered using an intermediary service. Kishore Nallan suggested running Typesense from the frontend unless session handling or authentication logic required a middleware service.

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Dec 22, 2021 (23 months ago)

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Mubashirullah

07:08 AM

I've coded most of what we need. Now I just need to change the current api with the typesense one. I need to convert the below request and map it into an equivalent search query. Is there a better way? I'm thinking of using API Gateway (AWS) to send the below to a lambda that will then do the search from typsense which I will place in an ECS cluster.

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Kishore Nallan

07:09 AM

Typesense can be directly exposed to the front end as well.

Mubashirullah

07:14 AM

Were can I read more about it. I don't know what would be a better approach. Modifying the frontend to talk to typsense or having something in the middle that will convert the current format to a typsense one

Kishore Nallan

07:15 AM

If you have additional session handling or auth logic, then running through a middleware service is better, but the advantage of running from the front end is that it is one less hop so you save on some latency.

> Were can I read more about it.
Read up the JS client examples in the docs.

Mubashirullah

01:29 PM

I'm going for the middle man approach. Since I'm composing the search query for filter_by, is it ok to add && without anything else that comes after it?
I've tried it and it didn't give me an error

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