ItemsAPI - auto-generated search API in Node.js and Elasticsearch.

Best for:

• lists and catalogs (restaurants, movies, gyms, doctors, places)
• eCommerce
• jobs search
• booking systems
• classifieds
• recommendation systems (i.e. users who like this also like)

Features:

• full text searching
• aggregations / faceted search
• similar items (collaborative filtering algorithm)
• seo optimized - generating nice urls for fields (permalinks)
• geo sorting
• auto generating API based on your data

• node.js
• java
• elasticsearch > 1.4 < 2.0

You can start with full stack package (itemsapi + dashboard) or with manual server installation. More info - getting started.

• Catalog of skilled software development companies from Europe
• A few example collections (ItemsAPI + Angular.js)

• https://itemsapi.readme.io (documentation)
• https://www.itemsapi.com/docs/tutorials/search-backend-for-restaurants-itemsapi-elasticsearch-nodejs (May 2016)
• https://blog.itemsapi.com/visualize-data-with-angular-js-and-itemsapi-like-a-magician-461569670bb3
• https://www.itemsapi.com/docs/tutorials/how-to-create-search-backend-for-movies (November 2015)

• Code evolution is better than code revolution
• It is good to have tests
• Developer experience and solving real problems is more important than quality of code
• Simplicity and easy to use is very important and we should make continuous improvement to achieve that
• https://www.itemsapi.com/docs/philosophy-and-methodology

• @pilot, @athlonU, @pjedrzejewski for supporting and being first early adopters

• ItemsAPI was originally created by Matt Rzepa.

ItemsAPI is licensed under the MIT Open Source license. For more information, see the LICENSE file in this repository.