Vanilla JS InstantSearch for web

Vanilla JS + Algolia

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Algolia UI Components - Instantsearch Vanilla JS

Add instant-search to javascript applications

Vanilla JS InstantSearch UI library is pre-built, customizable and flexible UI widgets to create your own search experiences -  explore the widget showcas. It has server side rendering and routing capabilities and is Open source, production-ready and maintained by Algolia.

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Features

  • Provides pre-built UI components following best practice principles for Vanilla JS that remain independent from external frameworks

  • Integrate into your existing UI or app, or use InstantSearch templates

  • Comes with a default CSS theme, completely customizable

  • Manages all business logic for search requests, responses, and states

  • Progressive customization of components (use, extend, or customize)

Version

  • Compatible with all current versions of the underlying JavaScript library

  • Code is entirely open source and available on GitHub

  • Bootstrap your application, with create-instantsearch-app, NPM, ...

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  • HTML (get a free account here)
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    <div class="ais-InstantSearch">
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      <h1>InstantSearch.js e-commerce demo</h1>
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      <div class="left-panel">
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        <div id="clear-refinements"></div>
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        <h2>Brands</h2>
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        <div id="brand-list"></div>
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      </div>
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      <div class="right-panel">
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        <div id="searchbox"></div>
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        <div id="hits"></div>
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        <div id="pagination"></div>
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      </div>
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    </div>
  • CSS
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    body { font-family: sans-serif; padding: 1em; }
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    .ais-SearchBox { margin: 1em 0; }
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    .ais-Pagination { margin-top: 1em }
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    .left-panel { float: left; width: 250px; }
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    .right-panel { margin-left: 260px; }
  • Search
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    search.addWidgets([
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      instantsearch.widgets.hits({
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        container: '#hits',
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        templates: {
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          item: `
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            <div>
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              <img src="{{image}}" align="left" alt="{{name}}" />
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              <div class="hit-name">
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                {{#helpers.highlight}}{ "attribute": "name" }{{/helpers.highlight}}
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              </div>
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              <div class="hit-description">
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                {{#helpers.highlight}}{ "attribute": "description" }{{/helpers.highlight}}
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              </div>
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              <div class="hit-price">\${{price}}</div>
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            </div>
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          `,
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        },
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      })
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    ]);
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