Make this package frontend independent

[matteodem]

Next major version will focus on making this package easy to use with any frontend library that's wished by either using GraphQL / Apollo or the Meteor Pub / Sub system.

[ivansglazunov]

Blaze in React is not working? I have not tried it, but when I try to report back. Does it make sense to do something if it works?

[matteodem]

Yeah sure, I just think it'd be cool to have a package like easy-search:components-react that provides some simple wrapped components.

[ivansglazunov]

Yes, cool. The package already in the works? Maybe I could do it in the next month.

[matteodem]

No it isn't, feel free to do so. I'll prioritize the open bugs either way

[acomito]

any update on this?

[matteodem]

No not really, for now you can use one of the packages that makes it easy to use blaze in react (https://atmospherejs.com/thereactivestack/blazetoreact)

[acomito]

That one doesn't seem to work anymore unfortunately. Is there a best alternative blaze-in-react package?

[tim-phillips]

While you wait for someone to get back to you about your github issue, you could try what mdg recommends in the guide:

https://guide.meteor.com/react.html#blaze-in-react

[acomito]

@babenzele I just realized I had static-html installed and handling my .html files instead of the blaze templating package.

[acomito]

hmm.. I also just realized that if I need to interact with the search results then things get kind of messy. For instance, if a user can click a search result to go to, say, an individual profile, then I need to use react-in-blaze to use react-router's <Link> OR somehow connect to react-router inside of blaze, or use blaze modals or something.

I wanted to avoid learning a new library but since I'm using redux already, I may go with this: https://treasure-data.github.io/redux-search/

[tim-phillips]

I've been using Griddle for some searches. It renders to a table but you can replace columns and cells with custom components. I'm using griddle-react-bootstrap with it as well for some styling.

https://griddlegriddle.github.io/Griddle/ http://wadahiro.github.io/griddle-react-bootstrap/

[isAlmogK]

It would be nice to support react is there any plans for this?

[matteodem]

I think in the long term the focus on this package will have to align with the apollo integration that's (hopefully) coming soon to meteor. Easy Search might then go through some major refactoring to adjust to the graphql subscriptions / query logic.

This would make react integration a breeze, as the apollo integration packages could be used.

As of now I'm not sure if it's worth the effort though, as it's still a open source package which takes up a lot of private time.

[isAlmogK]

Yea that makes sense, not sure about Apollo integration with Meteor was this already announced

[matteodem]

not yet, but MDG mentioned multiple times that graphql will come to Meteor as the new data stack in a future version.

[matteodem]

I will integrate Easy Search into a personal project of mine, which uses GraphQL on the backend. Maybe this will result into a new package and / or documentation on how to use the package with GraphQL easily to make it frontend agnostic.

[matteodem]

A quick update: I used Easy-Search in the project I mentioned previously (https://github.com/matteodem/meteor-easy-search/issues/495#issuecomment-343862935) and it pretty much works out of the box:

https://github.com/matteodem/sounds-social/blob/b0ad1471849850a6a970fb2fde8011ee40a7aa9a/code/api/imports/api/schema/SoundGraphqlSchema.js#L175

Open for suggestions on how to advance on this, but as of now I'm unclear on what could help this library be "easier" to integrate.