Search: Migrate to alternative search library

wei2912 commented 2 weeks ago

We've been using Elastic Search UI for a while, but we're now running into the following limitations:

No infinite scroll support (https://github.com/AdvisorySG/mentorship-page/issues/645)
Difficult to link to individual mentors (see https://github.com/AdvisorySG/mentorship-page/pull/731)
Customisation of Elastic Search queries

A possible alternative might be https://www.searchkit.co/, but more research needs to be done first.

linear[bot] commented 2 weeks ago

dabby9734 commented 3 days ago

searchkit seems to offer much of the same functionality of Elastic Search UI .
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to implement infinite scroll (and it does not appear practical) due to reasons shared in #645
The issue with linking to specific mentors seems to be related to Elastic Search UI performing its own transformations on the URL (which overwrites our extra query uid=...). While investigating the possibility of customising Elastic Search UI's transformation of URLs, I came across a NextJS Integration Guide. However, it's written for the NextJS Pages router, so I've been having some trouble adapting it to the App Router so that I can experiment with it using our setup.
Need more elaboration on the 'customisation of Elastic Search queries'. What kind of customisation are we looking at?

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