Implementing Full-Text Search in Elixir Phoenix with Haystack

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Implementing Full-Text Search in Elixir Phoenix with Haystack
Philip Brown outlines a step-by-step guide on adding full-text search capabilities to a Phoenix application using Haystack. The tutorial begins by setting up a basic Phoenix project without a database using the command 'mix phx.new'. He then proceeds to incorporate the NimblePublisher package for handling content-driven websites, creating structures for articles which include IDs, slugs, names, and bodies. After structuring articles and setting up NimblePublisher, Haystack is added to the project as a dependency for enabling full-text search. Brown details how to configure the Haystack search module, initialize structs, manage indexes, and leverage ETS for data storage. He introduces a search function within a 'search.ex' file to handle search requests. Finally, a live view module, 'SearchLive', is created to enable user interaction with the search feature within the Phoenix application. The app can then be tested to perform full-text searches on the provided content. The process shows the efficacy and simplicity of integrating Haystack for full-text search in Elixir applications.

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