Amplify Algolia Search

I built a custom directive to enable searching with Algolia:
https://github.com/thefinnomenon/graphql-algolia-transformer

It has been a pleasure building MVPs with Amplify but I was annoyed at the monthly cost of Elasticsearch and wanted a search that fits the Serverless "pay per use" model -- enter Algolia. It has a decent free monthly quota so you can make a low cost MVP or small app. It also has a really simple management interface and solid client libraries and UI widgets.

I created a simple searchable blog example (which turned more into a recipe search 😆) that can be found in the Github repo. If you need to add search to your Amplify project, give this transformer a shot.

type Blog @model { id: ID! name: String! posts: [Post] @connection(keyName: "byBlog", fields: ["id"]) } type Post @model @algolia(fields:{include:["title"]}) @key(name: "byBlog", fields: ["blogID"]) { id: ID! title: String! blogID: ID! blog: Blog @connection(fields: ["blogID"]) comments: [Comment] @connection(keyName: "byPost", fields: ["id"]) } type Comment @model @key(name: "byPost", fields: ["postID", "content"]) { id: ID! postID: ID! post: Post @connection(fields: ["postID"]) content: String! }