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Migration of Search Feature from Algolia to Typesense

TLDR Sean discusses migrating a search feature from Algolia to Typesense and praises the easy transition. They express concerns about TypeScript support, and Jason advises about ongoing improvements. Both users look forward to a future meeting.

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Sep 28, 2021 (28 months ago)

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Sean

05:53 PM

👋 Hi everyone! I have been tasked with moving a search feature from Algolia to Typesense so that we are not constrained by the record count. The goal is to build a SDS search feature which finds SDS indexed documents which will point to downloadable SDS pdfs from an S3 bucket

05:56

Sean

05:56 PM

I have a pipeline setup with lambda and s3 to allow members of my team to upload a JSON file of data which will be processed to create index object to store in, currently algolia and soon to be Typesense.

05:57

Sean

05:57 PM

The best part about moving to Typesense is the frontend switch is extremely easy! I just wanted to say thanks for the great experience in the migration.

05:58

Sean

05:58 PM

Just wanted to introduce myself.

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Jason

06:54 PM

Hey Sean! Welcome!

Your use-case sounds incredible! End-users upload a JSON file and get a searchable interface essentially?

06:54

Jason

06:54 PM

Btw, what does SDS stand for?

Sean

06:55 PM

Safety Data Sheet.

Jason

06:55 PM

Just read up on it, very interesting!

Sean

06:56 PM

The old acronym was MSDS
Is is a WHMIS related thing for working with hazardous chemicals

Jason

06:56 PM

I see!

06:59

Jason

06:59 PM

I find it super motivating to hear Typesense being used in use-cases and scenarios I didn't even know existed! So thank you for sharing!

Sean

06:59 PM

I have a meeting with you and the CEO of my company on Thursday

Jason

07:00 PM

Ahh! Got it, didn't make the connection until now.

07:00

Jason

07:00 PM

I'm looking forward to it

Sean

07:00 PM

So am I! We would like to get the cloud offering setup.

07:00

Sean

07:00 PM

I was messing around this morning with the docker image locally and everything was very simple

07:01

Sean

07:01 PM

Only complaint is the Typescript support.

Jason

07:01 PM

Ah yes, we had a contributor take a stab at converting the code base to Typesecript in this PR: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-js/pull/62

07:02

Jason

07:02 PM

But it's not complete yet...

Sean

07:03 PM

Oh. Do you know what is missing?

Jason

07:04 PM

I think at this point, it might have gotten a little stale with a few new features we added since May. So it might be an effort in merging master branch into that branch, resolving conflicts and then adding types for the remaining new methods

Sean

07:06 PM

Alright. I may take a look. Thanks again. And talk to you Thursday Jason!

Jason

07:07 PM

That would be great! Talk to you on Thu

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