How to Implement Typeahead Search with Elasticsearch

Today, search is an important functionality in enterprise applications and end-users are obsessed with the experience of Google Search and expecting the application search also provides similar experiences.

This requires us to design and implement a search engine along with your golden source (RDBMS/NOSQL). There are many search engines available in the market today like Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, Azure Cognitive Search, etc. These provide a better search experience and features like typeahead, fuzzy search, boosting the search results based on relevancy, similarity search, etc.

Use Of Ngx-Bootstrap Typehead In Angular 8

Introduction

Ngx-Bootstrap has released a package of open-source tools which are native Angular directives for Bootstrap 3 and 4. It contains all core components powered by Angular. In this article, we will learn about the Typehead component which is a cool feature of Ngx-bootstrap.

What Is Typeahead?

Typeahead — Also known as autocomplete or autosuggest is a language prediction tool that many search interfaces use to provide suggestions for users as they type in a textbox. This is a method for searching and filtering through text. It is also sometimes known as autocomplete, incremental search, search-as-you-type, and inline search.