Building A Search Server With Elasticsearch

Build a fully featured and scalable search UI with Elasticsearch.

This course will give you the tools you need to create your own custom search application. Throughout this course, you'll see how rewarding Elasticsearch can be to work with and how to use it to build a real search application complete with results, highlighting, filters, and autocomplete.

Starting with an introduction to Elasticsearch and client-side applications, we'll then move on to learn how Elasticsearch automatically classifies field types, and what to do if they need to be overridden. We will also cover many of the query types that Elasticsearch provides to return results for our AngularJS application. Once we have some basic results, we will add filters (called aggregations in Elasticsearch) to make it easy for users to narrow down the results to a specific topic. Then we will cover how to implement autocomplete and highlighting, and ultimately wrap up with an overview of deployment and security.

This course will equip you with the tools that you need to craft rich search interfaces that deliver great results to your users.

Daniel Beach is a search architect, specializing in client-side application development. He works at Opensource Connections where he has built search applications for organizations ranging from publishers to government agencies.

A basic understanding of JavaScript will help you grasp the functionalities of the application built with Elasticsearch and AngularJS in this course

Ingest real data into your index and create a working Elasticsearch cluster

Categorize different types of data automatically with Elasticsearch and manage them effectively

Work with a variety of queries and learn how and when to use them correctly

Implement exciting features that help you search and highlight data

Build custom search filters that help you with advanced data search

Get to grips with the best practices for separating out the structure of an AngularJS application into its various components

Add a bit more to your search server by applying relevancy tuning and addressing security concerns