vinen88 / asp-search

ASP.NET core Elasticsearch web based search engine

ASP-Search

ASP.NET core Elasticsearch web based search engine

To Run

Start Elasticsearch

• BE SURE TO START THIS FIRST!
• navigate to folder with docker-compose.yml in it (should be the main folder)
• docker-compose up
• give it time to run takes 2-5 minutes to start for me on an older windows machine

Start website

• For simplicity open the .sln file in Visual Studio
• run without debugging
• will take about a minute to start as it has to load data into Elasticsearch

Suggested Search Terms

• C-Max
• Tesla
• seatle
• WA

These should get you enough info and you can have fun after that, data is all electric car data so try searching anything related.

Data

Data from Data.gov

Useful Links

• Elasticsearch and NEST (.NET Client) Cheatsheet

Features

Basic

• The website should load and index some randomly generated or selected test data.
• Your test data can be anything you want but should be at least several thousand records.
• The app should allow the user to enter keywords and find your indexed content.
• Your app should also feature a responsive design to ensure it renders well for a variety of screen sizes and resolutions.

Advanced

• Stemming should be used – for example, when searching for “engineer”, the search should also return results for “engineering”, “engineers”, and “engineered”.
• Spell checking should present corrected search terms for user misspellings.
• Related search terms could be displayed when a user has searched, suggesting alternate keywords related to what they’ve already searched for.
• Auto-complete should suggest search terms as the user types in the search box.
• Attach meta-data to your indexed records and provide faceting options for the user to filter by.

Known Issues

Data

• Data isn't very unique there is alot of repitition. Better data could be found and models adjusted I guess?

Search

• could be bugs with pagination, it was a last minute addition but from my testing it's working
• slow start up, not worth fixing as test data loads in.

Docker

• need to dockerize ASP.NET core app Not sure if that would make running it any easier due to HTTPS certs.
• elasticsearch docker container is quite memory intensive. (around 7GB)

Choices Made to Make Demo Simpler

• no persistant elastic search data.
• data is rebuilt every time program is run
• only 2100 entries, can add more by reformatting data with the python file but start up times increase quite a bit