[Feature request]: use Algolia and their React components for search by facets and text about shelf.nu HOT 2 CLOSED

If i stick to this project i'm likely do an MVP for internal usage

At the moment even with 20 assets i'm becoming painfully aware of the lack of text-search and facets :)

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hey @victor-yunenko . Thanks for opening an issue and your suggestions.

We also have experience with algolia and I completely agree with you. It is amazing both in terms of DX and UX and we would love to integrate something like this. However there are some challenges in terms of data structure and security that are stopping us from integrating it at this point. After all, our users have their private data and managing all data from all users in a singular index is not an option. That means we have to create an index for each user which means running algolia would not be cheap at all. We haven't counted it out

Currently we actually have postgres full text search combined with a postgres view for assets, however that is limited. You can search in most asset fields and separate your queries by space as explained in the tooltip, but I agree with you. This is far from ideal.

Currently the two options we are considering is the following:

• Elastic search - which we can self host. Will require quite some setup but will be pretty straight forward. Issue with adding something like this is that it makes the project quite more complex to setup for self-hosted and I always try to be very cautious about this.
• Indexed DB - the other option I have been thinking about is taking advantage of the constantly growing and improving browser features, namely the indexed DB. The concept there would be that when the user starts a session, we load the data from the DB and once its loaded the search is done via the indexed DB.

You seem very experienced with search and I would love to hear what you think about our ideas and we are open to any input.

P.S. I will change this to a discussion so we can keep track of it on the long term and hopefully other people can chip in as well.

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