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Collaborating on Laravel Scout Engine for Typesense

TLDR Jason invited contributors Abdullah and Tim for a collaboration on the Laravel Scout engine for Typesense. They discussed framework intricacies and agreed to collaborate under Typesense's GitHub organization.

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Apr 26, 2021 (33 months ago)

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Jason

03:59 PM

Alex David kevin Following up from this, are you already using Typesense with Laravel?

04:01

Jason

04:01 PM

There's this Laravel Scout engine that a contributor has been working on: https://github.com/devloopsnet/laravel-scout-typesense-engine

It has a few open issues: https://github.com/devloopsnet/laravel-scout-typesense-engine/issues/10

04:01

Jason

04:01 PM

Let me see if I can invite the author to the community Slack so we can collaborate

Apr 27, 2021 (33 months ago)

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Alex

12:23 AM

Yep, I saw this but it doesn’t seem to have had any commits for over half a year. We’re planning on replacing our client side text search in the backend CMS with a global search that’s connected to our TypeSense instance. Its currently a planned as opposed to a WIP project, but we expect to start fleshing out the project in 2-3 months

Jason

02:23 AM

Hey everyone, please meet Abdullah, he's the original author of the PHP library which we adopted as the official one and also the typesense laravel scout driver

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Abdullah

09:44 AM

Hello everybody, I’m ready to help in anyway possible

Jason

06:24 PM

Abdullah Would you be open to us adopting your work on the scout driver into the Typesense github org (with attribution of course), so we can all collaborate on it together in one place, and also get more eyes on it?

Abdullah

06:25 PM

Of course, I’m with whatever makes other developers life easier

06:25

Abdullah

06:25 PM

After all, I’ve only done it to give back to the community

Jason

06:27 PM

Awesome, thank you again for your work! Let's do a similar way as we did with the PHP client... I'll create a new repo in the typesense org and then pull from your repo into that, then I'll send a PR to your repo to add a banner to the README pointing people to the new one, I'll then add you to that repo in the typesense org, so we can continue collaborating

Apr 28, 2021 (33 months ago)

Jason

03:31 PM

Tim - welcome! Please meet the rest of the crew who have expressed interest in helping with the Laravel scout driver, along with Abdullah who is the original author

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Tim

03:36 PM

👋 Specifically, I’m from the Craft CMS community, so I was planning on seeing what is happening on the Laravel side and sharing that with what we’re doing in Craft/Yii https://github.com/riasvdv/craft-scout/

Jason

03:40 PM

Ah got it! Forgive my noob question, but is Scout a search abstraction library in PHP that both Laravel and CraftCMS use in common, or is it just a coincidence that they share the same terminology?

Tim

04:00 PM

coincidence, kind of…it shares the name because it was inspired/ported from the Laravel version

04:00

Tim

04:00 PM

but they dont share any code.

04:01

Tim

04:01 PM

However I think they both use Fractal under the hood https://fractal.thephpleague.com/

04:03

Tim

04:03 PM

So most of the code is: using/connecting to engines (eg algolia, typesense) and integrating it into the actual app (eg Craft CMS elemnets)

04:03

Tim

04:03 PM

it would be great if there were a framework-agnostic SearchProvider interface they could both use… :thinking_face:

Jason

04:15 PM

I see, interesting.

04:16

Jason

04:16 PM

Isn't the Scout engine meant to be that framework-agnostic SearchProvider?

Tim

04:38 PM

I’d have to look again, but I think everything is specific to Illuminate\Database\Eloquent models, so not really agnostic

04:39

Tim

04:39 PM

but yeah, probably could be

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