Deploying Typesense-instantsearch-adapter in Serverless Context

Hi, I'm trying to deploy a webpage that uses Typesense-instantsearch-adapter to CloudFlare pages (using CF workers to server side render), and while it can fetch results from within the browser, I can't server side render the page since Typesense-js relies on axios which uses node APIs which aren't available in a serverless context. This is essentially the same problem that this thread discusses: https://typesense-community.slack.com/archives/C01UZEXF5FY/p1643168574904559

My problem is that I can't use the typesense-deno fork mentioned in that thread since Typesense-instantsearch-adapter doesn't allow me to pass in a custom searchClient implementation. Now I could use typesense-deno and fork the adapter to use that library instead, but before I do that I was wondering if moving away from axios towards something like cross-fetch is a possibility?

My understanding is that axios works both in node.js and browser envs...

Yup, axios works in node.js and browser envs, just not in the serverless env of CloudFlare workers and other serverless platforms. I think they have access to the same serviceWorker environment that PWAs use.

I'll open a PR to be able to override the client, the only problem is that I'd have to maintain an axios-less fork of typesense-js. But according to this it seems like axios is planning to add a fetch-based adapter anyway, so I'll just do it this way for now until they release that. I think I'll be able to get the PR out on Friday 🙂