Parse Server Addon Cloud Algolia

Travis tests: https://travis-ci.org/owsas/parse-server-addon-cloud-algolia

Keeps in sync your database with Algolia, adding new behaviours on the afterSave and afterDelete functions on the Cloud Code.

This is an addon for ParseCloudClass, and parse-server

Installation

npm install --save parse-server-addon-cloud-class-algolia

Note: This package is Typescript friendly and comes with Intellisense :)

Features

• Adds new objects in your class to algolia
• Updates the objects in algolia when they change
• Deletes the objects in algolia as they get removed from your database
• Works for both PostgresSQL and MongoDB

How to use

This package requires you to check first parse-server-addon-cloud-class and how it works.

// cloud/main.js
import { 
  ParseCloudClass 
} from 'parse-server-addon-cloud-class';

import { 
  AlgoliaCloudAddon 
} from 'parse-server-addon-cloud-class-algolia';


const algoliaAddon = new AlgoliaCloudAddon()
  // initialize this with your credentials
  .initialize('ALGOLIA_APP_ID', 'ALGOLIA_KEY', 'INDEX_NAME')
  // set the keys you want to index in algolia
  // for each of your objects
  .setKeysToIndex([ 'name', 'location', 'numShares', 'otherObj' ]);


// Now we create the configuration for our class. For more information, refer to its docs
// here: https://github.com/owsas/parse-cloud-class
const classConfig = new ParseCloudClass();
classConfig.useAddon(algoliaAddon);


// Now we finish configuring the class to 
// use our given configuration
ParseCloudClass.configureClass(Parse, 'MyParseClass', classConfig);

The result

You will have a sync between your desired Parse class, stored in PostgreSQL or MongoDB and Algolia for efficient searching.

This addon will setup the following hooks:

• afterSave
• afterDelete

Extending the Algolia Cloud Addon

You can easily extend the Algolia Cloud Addon as it is a normal Javascript class, doing the following:

import { 
  AlgoliaCloudAddon 
} from 'parse-server-addon-cloud-class-algolia';

export class MyModified extends AlgoliaCloudAddon {
  // your new implementations to the lyfecycle functions
}

Note: Check all the possibilities here

Credits

Developed by Juan Camilo Guarín Peñaranda,
Otherwise SAS, Colombia
2017

License

MIT.

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