Build a faceted search app in 2 minutes with appbase.io’s interactive tutorials

Siddharth Kothari
All things #search
Published in
2 min readNov 18, 2021

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We’ve just revamped our onboarding tutorial. If you’re just signing up on appbase.io or looking through our docs, you can try our interactive tutorial out to create a SaaS, E-Commerce or Geo search app without any login or search cluster setup.

Takes only a couple of minutes to create your search app, and you can export the generate code via Codesandbox! 🚀

Start our interactive tutorial at docs.appbase.io/tutorial

SaaS search

If you’re building a SaaS search experience, this tutorial uses a TMDB 10,000 movies dataset and walks you through the process of setting searchable fields and facets.

E-Commerce search

If you’re building an E-Commerce search experience, this tutorial uses an E-commerce specific sample dataset and walks you through the process of setting searchable fields and facets.

Geo search

If you’re building a geo search experience, this tutorial uses an earthquakes dataset and walks you through the process of creating a searchable and faceted maps search experience. We use OpenStreetMaps here, but one can also easily choose GoogleMaps to build this out.

These tutorials leverage the React version of ReactiveSearch UI kit which has been used by more than 1,000 projects to create search experiences. We also offer equivalent UI kits for Vue, React Native and Flutter.

appbase.io features

Appbase.io offers a point-and-click search relevance control plane, search query rules (promote, hide, rewrite search parameters, return custom data back), out-of-the-box search analytics, stored queries, and caching — features which are beyond the scope of these tutorials. Sign up for our 14-day trial to try these out!

You can deploy appbase.io with any Elasticsearch upstream cluster (Elastic Cloud, AWS OpenSearch) or with appbase.io cloud.

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