search-index and norch cookbook

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LATEST SEARCH-INDEX !!!

Version 0.8.x and 0.9.x of had some changes that makes a good part of the guide outdated. Put a comment on this issue to get notification when updated is out.

A collection of recipes and how to's on interesting use cases with search-index. Feel free to suggest a new topic you want explained. Check the prerequisits for getting the most out of the cookbook.

Topics

• Autosuggest or autocomplete - how to use the matcher
• Autosuggest from the browser search box
• Create your own stopwords list, filter out the weed
• Fix 0-result queries with synonyms
• How to tune relevancy?
• Index size and searching speed tradeoffs
• Indexing large data sets

Pitfalls

• Data indexed but no search results

References

• prerequisits
• configuration
• document object
• query object
• stopwords
• matcher
• search index
• 3rd party modules

Get up and running with Node and NMP

• Get it running on system [x]

TODO

Work wery much in progress. A long list of things yet to do. And you're more than welcome to suggest new recipes & topics.