Doofinder Library

A.K.A. js-doofinder, or just doofinder, this library makes easy to perform requests to Doofinder's search service and customize the way you present results.

• Installation
  • Yarnpkg
  • NPM
  • CDN
• TL;DR
• Quick Start
• Documentation

Installation

The library can be installed via package managers or directly pointing to a file in jsDelivr's CDN.

Yarnpkg (Recommended)

$ yarn add doofinder

NPM

$ npm install doofinder

ESM

import { Client } from 'doofinder';

CommonJS

const { Client } = require('doofinder/commonjs');

CDN

You can include the library directly in your website:

<!-- Javascript -->
<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/doofinder@latest/dist/doofinder.min.js"></script>

TL;DR

If you only want to know how this is structured, without the details, here we go.

The library provides:

• A Client class to perform requests to the Doofinder service.
• A Query class which provides an easy-to-use object to prepare the queries to the Doofinder Client before sending anything.
• A Result class to wrap the response from the server and access to the data through easy to use methods.
• A ClientRepo singleton that holds a pool of Doofinder Client in each zone and helps instantiating them.

Quick Start

The project includes a demo you can use as inspiration. To take a look and see things you can do with it:

1. Download the entire project from Github.
2. Make sure you've got Node 10.x running in your system.
3. From the root of the project:
   1. install dependencies with $ yarn install or $ npm install.
4. To run the tests, execute: $ yarn test.

The demo markup is inside index.html and the related Javascript code can be found at playground/demo.js.

NOTICE: The demo uses a test search engine but you can use a different one, just change the value of the HASHID variable you will find inside index.html.

IMPORTANT: Doofinder protects API calls with CORS. If you change the HASHID variable defined in index.html you will have to allow localhost for your search engine in Doofinder Admin.

How to Use the Library

To familiarize yourself with using this project, you can follow the examples provided in the playground.

The key component is the demo.js file, but in order to effectively utilize it, you'll need to understand the following parameters:

1. server: https://docs.doofinder.com/api/search/v6/#section/Basics/Endpoint
2. secret: https://docs.doofinder.com/api/search/v6/#section/Basics/Authentication
3. hashid: https://docs.doofinder.com/api/search/v6/#section/Basics/Conventions
4. sessionId: https://docs.doofinder.com/api/search/v6/#section/Basics/Conventions

Documentation

IMPORTANT: This is a work in progress.

https://doofinder.github.io/js-doofinder/

Browser Support

Browser	Standalone	ES Module
Edge	15+	16+
Firefox	32+	60+
Chrome	55+	61+
Safari	11+	11+
Opera	42+	48+
Chrome for Android	76+	76+
Firefox for Android	68+	68+
UC Browser for Android	12.12+	12.12+
Safari for iOS	11+	11+