Searchkit Express
A thin library to create an express to elasticsearch proxy to support the searchkit ui framework
npm install searchkit-express --savevar SearchkitExpress = require("searchkit-express")Add _search, _msearch endpoints to root url
if you just want to create a proxy to the root express url then use the SearchkitExpress function directly like this
var app = express()
//...
SearchkitExpress({
host:process.env.ELASTIC_URL || "http://localhost:9200",
index:'movies',
queryProcessor:function(query, req, res){
//do neccessery permissions, prefilters to query object
//then return it
return query
}
}, app)
then in your Clientside UI code
const searchkit = new SearchkitManager("/")Alternative express router
If you wish to get hold of an express.Router instance so you can configure the suburl and add specific express middleware; use as follows
var app = express()
//...
var searchkitRouter = SearchkitExpress.createRouter({
host:process.env.ELASTIC_URL || "http://localhost:9200",
index:'movies',
maxSockets:500, // defaults to 1000
queryProcessor:function(query, req, res){
console.log(query)
return query
}
})
app.use("/movie-search", searchkitRouter)then in your Clientside UI code
const searchkit = new SearchkitManager("/movies-search")Debugging
To enable debugging, enable debugging by setting environment variable when starting your server.
DEBUG=SearchkitExpress node server.js