About

The component handling search requests. Objects implementing the Searcher interface manage the search sessions.

• HitsSearcher: searches a single index.
• FacetSearcher: searches for facet values.
• MultiSearcher: aggregates the hits and facet searchers. This is useful for a federated search, or query suggestions .
• AnswersSearcher: searches an index for Answers.

This component is part of the InstantSearch open source UI library that lets you quickly build a search interface in your frontend application.

InstantSearch’s goal is to help you implement awesome search experiences as smoothly as possible by providing a complete search ecosystem. InstantSearch tackles an important part of this vast goal by providing frontend widgets that you can assemble into unique search interfaces.