Discussing Features for Typesense Cloud Dashboard
TLDR Stephano expressed the need for a Typesense Cloud dashboard to manage collections. Jason confirmed its development, also including features like editing and deleting items. James and Mica added comments about API key management and self-hosted Typesense compatibility.
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:02:28 UTCNot at the moment, but I am working on it as we speak!
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:02:38 UTCAwesome
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:03:25 UTCWould be great to be able to add items, remove items and edit items all from the dashboard
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:03:53 UTCAnd also perhaps do so with batches of items
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:04:07 UTCYup! Here's a sneak peak from my local machine
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:04:57 UTCCool, btw can we build the schema in the dashboard so we dont need to have it in code?
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:05:37 UTCYup, here's how that looks:
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:05:46 UTCYou still have to specify a JSON structure though
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:06:21 UTCOh wicked
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:06 UTCI might move my TypeSense to cloud because of this. So I dont have to run CLI commands just to seed and drop my typesense
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:22 UTCIf I delete collection, is there a way to keep the schema via dashboard?
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:57 UTCOr even, could I batch delete documents while keeping the collection
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:58 UTCUnfortunately no, state is only stored in the Typesense Cluster, so once a collection is deleted, it's gone
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:08:30 UTCAre you essentially looking to "reset" the collection to 0 documents?
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:08:34 UTCYes
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:08:46 UTCGot it, alright I'll add that in as well!
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:09:21 UTCIn hindsight, that's a pretty useful feature! Don't know why I didn't think about it :)
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:09:40 UTCMaybe it could be better to have a way to select multiple items and then perform the action (delete)
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:09:51 UTCAnd you can have an option to select all
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:10:56 UTCSelecting individual docs across millions of documents could be chore though. I'm essentially thinking of adding a way to delete by filter query through the UI:
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:11:20 UTCSo you can either delete all documents, or delete a subset by specifying a filter
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:12:17 UTCRight, in practice I only need to delete all during dev anyway
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:12:40 UTCBut would be nice in production to be able to delete by specific ID using dashboard
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:13:08 UTCAnother thing that’s really important for me is creating a batch of documents
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:13:36 UTCIn my code I do this: ```export const importDocumentsReq = (collection: string, data: Array<any>) => axios({ method: 'post', url: `${protocol}://${host}:${searchPort}/collections/${collection}/documents/import`, headers, data: toJSONL(data), }).catch(throwSearch);```
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:14:00 UTCWhere I basically run the `import` request
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:14:10 UTCWhen I want to seed a bunch of documents
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:14:13 UTCAdding documents looks like this, which does an import behind the scenes
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:14:32 UTCOh wicked
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:14:42 UTCIs there a way to import a file to do this easier?
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:15:01 UTCNot at the moment (wanted to get a MVP out soon)
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:15:10 UTCGotcha, looks good to me
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:15:27 UTCResetting Users and uploading batches/schemas is really all I needed
Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:15:35 UTCSuper excited man, great work
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:16:01 UTCThank you!
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:16:24 UTCCan't wait to get this out... So many people have asked for this now!
James
Fri, 14 May 2021 20:31:05 UTCListing existing API keys would be useful. Also, I do not like how the api keys are downloaded to a txt file
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 20:49:38 UTCJames Got it, I need to refactor some parts of the code to centralize key management in one place, so decided to skip it for mvp. But definitely part of the plan.
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 20:50:00 UTCI guess instead of downloading a txt file, we could just show the API key one time on the page itself
James
Fri, 14 May 2021 20:51:38 UTCI think so. More secure and in “one place”. A sandbox search/facet area would also be useful - test before production. Maybe performance suggestions
Jason
Fri, 14 May 2021 20:57:24 UTCYup, here's how the search sandbox looks:
Mica
Mon, 17 May 2021 12:14:20 UTCWould this visual dashboard work for self-hosted Typesense too? It looks really nice!
Jason
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:09:36 UTCThanks Mica! The dashboard is baked into Typesense Cloud, and so works only with Typesense Cloud clusters
Jason
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:10:26 UTCStephano James Good news! Powered through some remaining pieces over the weekend and deployed the dashboard to prod this morning!
Jason
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:11:08 UTCI'd love to get your feedback!
Mica
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:17:30 UTCSo it's not planned to have this dashboard for self-hosted Typesense? It would be awesome to be able to play with, since Typesense Cloud doesn't have a free tier.
Jason
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:28:23 UTC> So it's not planned to have this dashboard for self-hosted Typesense? Not at the moment, because the dashboard has some hard dependencies on the cloud management console for auth, etc and it would take some effort to make it work with self-hosted Typesense. In full transparency though, Typesense Cloud is how we sustain our small bootstrapped team and the Typesense project, so we're hoping the dashboard gives people a reason to use Typesense Cloud... Still thinking this through, but that's our thought process at the moment. > It would be awesome to be able to play with, since Typesense Cloud doesn't have a free tier Typesense Cloud has a 30-day free tier on the 512MB config
James
Mon, 17 May 2021 18:29:49 UTCJason Top Work!
Mica
Wed, 26 May 2021 09:05:51 UTCI fully understand that you rely on Typesense Cloud and that if it's hard to make it work for local use it's not a priority. Thanks for the explanation! It's been a while I looked at the pricing I forgot there was a 30-day trial, that's cool! I'll just have to make sure when to activate it, haha.
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Stephano
Fri, 14 May 2021 19:01:36 UTCFor typesense cloud is there a dashboard to view the items in your collections?