Simple Settings Question: Sorting by Date Descending!

[dwyn]

Hiya! I just have a really simple question on creating replicas and sorting by date - desc. I am following this documentation

In my gatstby-config.js Ive added:

const queries = [
  {
    query: siteQuery,
    transformer: ({ data }) => data.allMarkdownRemark.nodes,
    settings: {  
      replicas: [  // Is this the right place to add replica settings?
        'articles_date_desc'
      ]
    }
  }
];

Is settings the right place to add replicas? Follow up, where would I add

replicaIndex.setSettings({
  ranking: [
    "desc(date_tag)",
    "typo",
    "geo",
    "words",
    "filters",
    "proximity",
    "attribute",
    "exact",
    "custom"
  ]
});

Thanks in advance!

[Haroenv]

Do you want the replica's settings to stay in sync, or is that something you want to set once?

[dwyn]

Hey @Haroenv, Im not exactly sure how to answer. What are the differences between the two options?

[Haroenv]

I'm asking because I have not taken replicas in account yet for the code of this Gatsby plugin. Ideally we would set the settings to any replica indices here: https://github.com/algolia/gatsby-plugin-algolia/blob/master/gatsby-node.js#L60

Apart from that, you should be able to set up the replica index via the settings as you suggest, and change the settings on the replica index only once as well. It should keep the settings on the replica index as expected.

As I said, I haven't tried this flow with Gatsby yet, so if you can set up a project and explain what doesn't behave as you expect, that would be ideal.

[dwyn]

Okay will do! Thanks, @Haroenv