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Seeking UI Library Supporting Filter_by Without Facet

TLDR Sandro asked for UI library recommendations supporting filter_by without faceting. Jason clarified that none of their search UI libraries offer this feature.

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Sandro

04:11 PM

there is any client library to recommend that support filter_by on fields without facet?

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Jason

04:12 PM

All of our official client libraries support filtering without faceting. It's only Algolia's Instantsearch UI library that this limitation of requiring faceting for filterable fields

Sandro

04:14 PM

yes sorry, I was asking for an UI library

Jason

04:25 PM

We don't have other search UI libraries unfortunately

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