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Algolia Boilerplate Documentation

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Documentation for a demo engineering boilerplate designed to showcase Algolia's search capabilities. Covers core features like federated search, hits, and navigation, as well as advanced features including personalization (personas), voice search, dynamic facets, and recommend. Includes setup guides for environment configuration, dependencies, and project structure.

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What's inside Algolia Boilerplate

  1. Overview of Algolia Search Engine

    Algolia is a hosted search engine that provides full-text, numerical, and faceted search. It is designed to deliver real-time results (typically under 100ms) from the first keystroke via an API that can be integrated into websites and mobile applications.

  2. Overview of the Algolia Boilerplate (BP) tool

    The Boilerplate (BP) is a scalable and customizable tool developed by Algolia's Demo Engineering team. It is built using ReactInstantSearchHooks and is designed to help developers quickly build, configure, and deploy custom demos or Proof of Concepts (POCs) that showcase Algolia's search features.

  3. Understand the application entry point and providers in Index.jsx

    Index.jsx serves as the application entry point. It renders the App.js component into the #root element defined in index.html. It is responsible for wrapping the application in the following providers: Recoil for state management and React Router for navigation. It also includes a screen resizer component.

  4. Manage global layout and routing in Main.jsx

    Main.jsx handles the high-level application structure. It contains static elements (header and footer from ./components), helper components for displaying applied rules, and the routing logic that loads a specific page from ./pages based on the current URL.

  6. Understand the Cart feature implementation

    The project includes a built-in Cart feature that persists user selections using Local Storage, ensuring the cart contents are maintained across sessions. The Cart is integrated with Algolia Insights for event tracking.

  7. Get started with the Algolia Boilerplate

    The Algolia Boilerplate is a pre-built application designed by Demo Engineering to showcase Algolia's search features using your own index. It is powered by React and InstantSearch to provide high-speed search and intuitive category navigation. To get the application up and running, refer to the documentation located in the docs directory of the project.

  9. Enable Rules Applied Mode in the Demo Guide

    Rules Applied Mode allows developers to see real-time information about which rules are being applied while browsing the application. This feature is toggled via the Demo Guide panel. To enable the switcher in the UI, set shouldShowAppliedRulesSwitcher to true in the config/demoGuideConfig file. Once enabled, the rule descriptions can be modified directly within the dashboard's rule description input.
    // config/demoGuideConfig
shouldShowAppliedRulesSwitcher: true

  10. Customize the Homepage layout in Homepage.jsx

    Homepage.jsx manages the landing page content. Its behavior depends on the configuration: if federated search is enabled, it loads the federated search component. It also renders banners and maps over carousels defined in the configuration. All components are wrapped in framer-motion animations. It includes sections for Recommended and Trending Products.

  11. Implement product carousels with Algolia

    Carousels in Algolia function as mini search results pages displayed in a horizontal scroll. The content of a carousel is determined by the API request sent to Algolia, which can combine queries, filters, sorting, merchandising rules, and recommendation engines (e.g., trending or related products). Carousels can be fully personalized based on the user.

  12. Implement Dynamic Facets in InstantSearch

    To allow Algolia to dynamically reorder facets based on search queries (merchandising), wrap your facet components within the <DynamicWidgets> component. In the provided boilerplate, this is located in src/components/facets/Facets.jsx. This wrapper enables InstantSearch to change the order of facets according to the rules defined in the Algolia dashboard.