Multi index search with Strapi and Meilisearch

[tvvignesh]

Description
Hi 👋🏼 I have been using Strapi for some time now and am currently working on integrating strapi-plugin-meilisearch to implement Search in the website.

While I am able to get it working with React Instantsearch and Strapi, I see that every collection becomes its own index so to do a search across multiple collections if I want to implement a global search, I have to implement a multi-index search and I did follow these repos for the same with multiple <Index>

https://github.com/algolia/doc-code-samples/blob/master/React%20InstantSearch/multi-index-hits/src/App.js

https://github.com/algolia/react-instantsearch/tree/7520e893bbec8816f6e283438610ad845616b0b4/examples/multi-index

But still I see instantsearch searching only a single index as specified within (in this case stores) - any ideas why? I do see that search is working when I try calling the API directly via curl

Using
"react-instantsearch-dom": "^6.11.1",
"@meilisearch/instant-meilisearch": "^0.5.0",

And this is how the snippet looks like.. The syntax seems to be correct but not sure why multi-index search doesn't work..

Expected behavior
Multi index search works with React instantsearch

Current behavior
No hit fired during search

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
  "react-instantsearch-dom": "^6.11.1",
  "@meilisearch/instant-meilisearch": "^0.5.0",

[liamb13]

At this stage, it's currently not possible with MeiliSearch: https://roadmap.meilisearch.com/c/74-multi-index-search

Until implemented, the only thing I could think that might be worthwhile is to merge all strapi collections into a single meilisearch index.

[bidoubiwa]

It is indeed not implemented yet in MeiliSearch!

@liamb13 could you make an appart issue suggesting this solution?

[tvvignesh]

@liamb13 Thanks for letting me know. Regarding merging them all to a single index, can you point me to a reference for the same? I am not sure how to do that considering Meilisearch creates separate index for every collection by default.

[liamb13]

@tvvignesh, a good friend and developer @MattieBelt just created the following: https://github.com/MattieBelt/strapi-plugin-meilisearch

Thus far, I haven't had much time to play but it's working well for me at this stage!

The above is searching across 3 Strapi collections:

• Articles
• Resources
• Tools

[harish2704]

PR #265 can also allow composite index