Typesense Search with Laravel

This sample application shows you how to use Laravel Scout's native integration with Typesense.

We use a sample dataset with 10K user records, show you how to search through the dataset.

Installation

Install composer dependencies

composer install

Create .env file

cp .env.example .env

Generate APP_KEY

php artisan key:generate

Start Typesense:

export TYPESENSE_API_KEY=xyz

mkdir $(pwd)/typesense-data

docker run -p 8108:8108 \
            -v$(pwd)/typesense-data:/data typesense/typesense:0.25.2 \
            --data-dir /data \
            --api-key=$TYPESENSE_API_KEY \
            --enable-cors

Migrate the databases and seed the testing data.

Create the database if not created in prompt. We use SQLite.

php artisan migrate --seed

Install node dependencies and build the frontend.

npm install

npm run build

Run the App

php artisan serve

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the app.

Documentation

Read more about how to use Laravel Scout with Typesense here: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/scout#typesense.