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Troubleshooting Typesense Installation in a React JavaScript App

TLDR Lukas faced difficulty with installing Typesense in a React app for full text search. Jason confirmed Typesense works with JavaScript and advised to disregard Typescript type warnings.

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Jul 15, 2021 (30 months ago)

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Lukas

06:57 PM

Hey all, I have a app with firestore and I'm looking for full text search. I have installed typesense via Option 1: Typesense Cloud, Then I tried installing client with "npm install --save typesense" and after importing it with

import Typesense from 'typesense'

I just get that Typesense is Undefined, so I guess it doesn't work with javascript? has anyone had any success with full text search with firestore?

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Jason

06:59 PM

Lukas It definitely works with Javascript! When you say "app", are you using React Native?

Lukas

07:00 PM

its just react js web app

Jason

07:01 PM

Could you post the full stack trace that you see, and also the rest of the file where you have the import statement?

Lukas

07:27 PM

Did I miss something? or is there more to it than simply running npm install --save typesense

Jason

07:48 PM

Oh that's just a warning saying that there are no Typescript types for the typesense package. You can ignore that, it will still work

07:49

Jason

07:49 PM

Here's another solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50516783/123545

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