ReactiveBase

ReactiveBase is a container component that wraps all the ReactiveSearch components together. It binds the backend app (data source) with the UI view components (elements wrapped within ReactiveBase), allowing a UI component to be reactively updated every time there is a change in the data source or in other UI components.

This is the first component you will need to add when using ReactiveSearch.

Usage

<ReactiveBase
  app="appname"
  credentials="abcdef123:abcdef12-ab12-ab12-ab12-abcdef123456"
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

Props

app String app name as it appears on the dashboard. Refers to an index if you’re using your own Elasticsearch cluster. (Multiple indexes can be connected to by specifiying comma separated index names)
type String [optional] types on which the queries should run on. Multiple types can be passed as comma separated values. The default behavior here is to search on all the app types.
credentials String [optional] app credentials as they appear on the dashboard. It should be a string of the format “username:password” and is used for authenticating the app. If you are not using an appbase.io app, credentials may not be necessary - although having an open-access Elasticsearch cluster is not recommended.
url String [optional] URL where Elasticsearch cluster is hosted, only needed if your app uses a non appbase.io URL.
headers Object [optional] set custom headers to be sent with each server request as key/value pairs. For example:

<ReactiveBase
  app="appname"
  credentials="abcdef123:abcdef12-ab12-ab12-ab12-abcdef123456"
  headers={{
      secret: 'reactivesearch-is-awesome'
  }}
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

analytics Boolean [optional] allows recording search analytics (and click analytics) when set to true and appbase.io is used as a backend. Defaults to false. Check the analytics recipe for click analytics implementation.
as String [optional] allows to use the custom html element tag, defaults to div.
searchStateHeader Boolean [optional] Defaults to false. Allows recording some advanced search analytics (and click analytics) when set to true and appbase.io is used as a backend.

Note:

You must use the react version >= 16.6 to make it work with click analytics.
theme Object [optional] allows over-writing of default styles by providing the respective key/values. You can read more about its usage here
themePreset String [optional] allows over-writing of default styles by providing a preset value. Supported values are light (default) and dark. You can read more about its usage here
getSearchParams Function [optional] Enables you to customise the evaluation of query-params-string from the url (or) any other source. If this function is not set, the library will use window.location.search as the search query-params-string for parsing selected-values. This can come handy if the URL is using hash values.
setSearchParams Function [optional] Enables you to customise setting of the query params string in the url by providing the updated query-params-string as the function parameter. If this function is not set, the library will set the window.history via pushState method.
transformRequest Function [optional] Enables transformation of network request before execution. This function will give you the the request object as the param and expect an updated request in return, for execution. Note that this is an experimental API and will likely change in the future.
graphQLUrl String [optional] Allows user to query from GraphqQL server instead of ElasticSearch REST api. graphql-compose-elasticsearch helps in transforming GraphQL queries into ElasticSearch rest api. Here is an example of GraphQL server which acts as proxy for ElasticSearch.
- GraphQL Server for books application

tranformResponse Function [optional] Enables transformation of search network response before rendering them. This asynchronous function will give you elasticsearch response object and componentId as params and expects an updated response in return in similar structure of elasticsearch. You can use componentId to conditionally tranform response for particular reactivesearch component only.

<ReactiveBase
    app="appname"
    credentials="abcdef123:abcdef12-ab12-ab12-ab12-abcdef123456"
    headers={{
        secret: 'reactivesearch-is-awesome'
    }}
    transformResponse={async (elasticsearchResponse, componentId) => (
        const ids = elasticsearchResponse.responses[0].hits.hits.map(
            item => item._id
        );
        const extraInformation = await getExatraInformation(ids);
        const hits = elasticsearchResponse.responses[0].hits.hits.map(
            (item) => {
                const extraInformationItem = extraInformation.find(
                    otherItem => otherItem._id === item._id
                );
                return {
                    ...item,
                    ...extraInformationItem
                };
            }
        );

        return {
            response: [
                {
                    ...elasticsearchResponse.responses[0],
                    hits: {
                        ...elasticsearchResponse.responses[0].hits,
                        hits
                    }
                }
            ]
        };
    )}
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

Note

transformResponse function is expected to return data in following structure.

{
    response: [
        {
            hits: {
                hits: [...],
                total: 100
            },
            took: 1
        }
    ]
}

Connect to Elasticsearch

Note

An app within ReactiveSearch’s context refers to an index in Elasticsearch.

ReactiveSearch works out of the box with an Elasticsearch index hosted anywhere. You can use the url prop of the ReactiveBase component to connect the child ReactiveSearch components to your own index. For example,

<ReactiveBase
  app="your-elasticsearch-index"
  url="http://your-elasticsearch-cluster"
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

It’s also possible to secure your Elasticsearch cluster’s access with a middleware proxy server that is connected to ReactiveSearch. This allows you to set up custom authorization rules, prevent misuse, only pass back non-sensitive data, etc. Here’s an example app where we show this using a Node.JS / Express middleware:

Note

If you are using the url prop for an Elasticsearch cluster, ensure that your ReactiveSearch app can access the cluster. Typically, you will need to configure CORS in elasticsearch.yml to enable access.

http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-credentials: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "http://reactive-search-app-domain.com:port"
http.cors.allow-headers: X-Requested-With, X-Auth-Token, Content-Type, Content-Length, Authorization, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Accept

Note

If you are using Elasticsearch on AWS, then the recommended approach is to connect via the middleware proxy as they don’t allow setting the Elasticsearch configurations.

Next Steps

Once you have added the ReactiveBase component, you can get started with adding other components as its children.

List specific components can be found here.
Range specific components can be found here.
Search specific components can be found here.
Result specific components can be found here.

You can read more about when to use which components in the overview guide here.

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Usage

Props

Connect to Elasticsearch

Next Steps

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