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Understanding Typesense Facets Implementation

TLDR Laura was looking for clarification on Typesense's facets functionality. Jason confirmed it's similar to Algolia's filter by concept.

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Jun 09, 2023 (6 months ago)

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Laura

02:00 PM

I'm trying to implement this query before algolia in typesense, I read the documentation and I'm trying to understand the facets part, would they be like typesense's filter_by? That I couldn't fully understand.

const algoliaResult = await index.search(q, {
        attributesToRetrieve: ['id'],
        tagFilters,
        hitsPerPage: 24,
        facets: '*',
        facetFilters: [`product_type_code:${category}
        page,
})

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Jason

02:07 PM

That’s correct, we just call all filters as filter_by

Laura

02:45 PM

thank you!

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