# Building Interactive Faceted Search with Backbone.js **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 20, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785 "2012-08-20T00:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greg_brown/32/1373_2.png) [@Greg\_Brown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greg_Brown)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785/1 "2012-08-20T00:54:13Z")
Howdy ElasticSearchers! I just released a library for quickly building interactive faceted search sites (with charts). I wrote an intro blog post[http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/](http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/)to the library, or head straight over to the es-backbone github repo [https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone](https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone). Still very v0.1 software, but I have it working for three internal search engines. Hope this will help someone else to build some front ends that are as cool as ElasticSearch is on the back end. -Greg -- ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785/2 "2012-08-20T01:11:14Z")
That's great. Thanks for sharing it. I will try it in a couple of week and give a feedback. -- David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 20 août 2012 à 02:54, Greg Brown [gbrown5878@gmail.com](mailto:gbrown5878@gmail.com) a écrit : > Howdy ElasticSearchers! > > I just released a library for quickly building interactive faceted search sites (with charts). I wrote an intro blog post to the library, or head straight over to the es-backbone github repo. > > Still very v0.1 software, but I have it working for three internal search engines. > > Hope this will help someone else to build some front ends that are as cool as Elasticsearch is on the back end. > -Greg > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785/3 "2012-08-21T10:30:56Z")
Hi Greg, Looks good and thanks for sharing! My only comment so far: please consider using something with d3, not Flot. Flot was probably the best choice for this at some point, but as an open-source project it didn't feel healthy last time we evaluated it. We are still using it in our services (see signature), but are going to replace it. ## Otis Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) On Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:54:13 PM UTC-4, Greg Brown wrote: > Howdy ElasticSearchers! > > I just released a library for quickly building interactive faceted search > sites (with charts). I wrote an intro blog post[http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/](http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/)to the library, or head straight over to the es-backbone > github repo [https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone](https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone). > > Still very v0.1 software, but I have it working for three internal search > engines. > > Hope this will help someone else to build some front ends that are as cool > as Elasticsearch is on the back end. > -Greg -- ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greg_brown/32/1373_2.png) [@Greg\_Brown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greg_Brown)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785/4 "2012-08-21T15:32:58Z")
Hi Otis, Thanks for feedback. I looked at using d3, but got slightly overwhelmed by the complexity/options when I just wanted to start out with some simple graphs. Would love to use d3 though because I agree there are some amazing visualizations one could build. I'll take a look at it again when I get a chance (issue added: [Add support for d3 rather than Flot · Issue #1 · Automattic/es-backbone · GitHub](https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone/issues/1)). If anyone has any d3 visualizations you think I should borrow from, please send them along. Love Sematext's blog BTW. Cheers! -Greg On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Otis Gospodnetic \< [otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Looks good and thanks for sharing! > > My only comment so far: please consider using something with d3, not Flot. > Flot was probably the best choice for this at some point, but as an > open-source project it didn't feel healthy last time we evaluated it. We > are still using it in our services (see signature), but are going to > replace it. > > ## Otis > > Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) > Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) > > On Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:54:13 PM UTC-4, Greg Brown wrote: > > > Howdy ElasticSearchers! > > > > I just released a library for quickly building interactive faceted search > > sites (with charts). I wrote an intro blog post[http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/](http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/quickly-build-faceted-search-with-elasticsearch-and-backbone-js/)to the library, or head straight over to the es-backbone > > github repo [https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone](https://github.com/Automattic/es-backbone). > > > > Still very v0.1 software, but I have it working for three internal search > > engines. > > > > Hope this will help someone else to build some front ends that are as > > cool as Elasticsearch is on the back end. > > -Greg > > > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-interactive-faceted-search-with-backbone-js/8785/5 "2017-07-06T03:15:39Z")