Ensuring Required Collections at Application Startup

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.

Mateo faces issues while creating a schema and using Ruby client for Typesense. Jason suggests using a new field instead of 'id' and provides assistance for Ruby client errors.

Ajeet requested guidance on updating collections for an application, citing issues like lack of schema validation. Jason suggested using regex for field restriction and confirmed collection alias functionality. CaptainCodeman shared a plan to use version numbers for collections avoiding delays.

Stefan asked about updating a collection schema. Kishore Nallan stated it's not currently possible but suggested automatic schema detection in version 0.20. Rishabh sought a workaround and Jason suggested creating a new collection with a new schema and re-indexing the data. Rishabh also asked about defining custom field IDs which Jason confirmed is not possible with Typesense.

Bill inquired about performing OR queries, querying empty arrays and modifying collections in Typesense. Kishore Nallan explained the current limitations and provided workarounds and recommendations for each case. The conversation also touched upon the usage of cache in Typesense and the workings of the _eval function.