# Any plugin available for Elasticsearch on par with Velocity Response Writer for Solr?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-plugin-available-for-elasticsearch-on-par-with-velocity-response-writer-for-solr/226993>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-plugin-available-for-elasticsearch-on-par-with-velocity-response-writer-for-solr/226993 "2020-04-07T18:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![zxhmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7feea3/32.png) [@zxhmike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zxhmike)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-plugin-available-for-elasticsearch-on-par-with-velocity-response-writer-for-solr/226993/1 "2020-04-07T18:58:39Z")

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Hi there,

We are trying for find a plugin for Elasticsearch on par with Velocity Response Writer for Solr? [https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8\_5/velocity-response-writer.html#velocity-response-writer](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_5/velocity-response-writer.html#velocity-response-writer)

Basically, we want to leverage Elasticsearch to render HTML directly without an app engine. We would like to install an Apache/Nginx in front of Elasticsearch to do with URL rewrites and proxies the search request to Elasticsearch and let Elasticsearch respond HTML to Apache/Nginx and eventually back to the users. Any templating engine would work, like Velocity, Mustache or Handlebars. Please let us know if there is such a plugin or we need to write our own custom plugin. Thank you.

- Mike

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**Author:** ![xeraa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xeraa/32/48181_2.png) [@xeraa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xeraa)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-plugin-available-for-elasticsearch-on-par-with-velocity-response-writer-for-solr/226993/2 "2020-04-08T17:15:50Z")

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I don't think Elasticsearch is a great templating engine. While there is support for Mustache for some parts (like [Search Templates](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html)), this isn't for the final output. Since you need a proxy or webserver in front of this anyway, that would be the right place for rendering templates IMO.

PS: I see "The VelocityResponseWriter has been deprecated and may be removed in a future version of Solr." on the plugin — maybe Solr is also not really a great templating engine?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-plugin-available-for-elasticsearch-on-par-with-velocity-response-writer-for-solr/226993/3 "2020-05-06T17:15:59Z")

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