Search seems to take a long time and appears to not work

codeforamerica / bestnest-app

http://dev.bestnestapp.com

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Closed jeremiak closed 10 years ago

jeremiak commented 10 years ago

The corresponding API request for the address I was looking up works great: http://dev.api.bestnestapp.com/search?q=2011%20cooley

However, when I use the app front end it just appears to hang.

junosuarez commented 10 years ago

Okay, got some fixes out.

added search index to full address field on mongodb
switched to case-sensitive search regexes (much faster than case insensitive, since it is able to take advantage of the index instead of ranging over every record)
limited number of search results to 7. this might not be ideal, but seems to help for now. potential future improvements: proper paging, some sort of indication of more results available