# DSL best practices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dsl-best-practices/22033
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 8, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dsl-best-practices/22033 "2015-02-08T14:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@unlucio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unlucio)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dsl-best-practices/22033/1 "2015-02-08T14:49:29Z")
Hello everybody,
I'm new to elastic search and trying to work my way with it since a couple
of weeks.
I'm using the node.js client
([https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-js](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-js)) and as I proceed in my
journey I'm facing quite a bit of problems with the DSL as I'm often
confused by it's syntax.
What bothers me the most is I can't seems to be able to come up with simple
and elegant queries.
For example, while trying to use filters the only way I was able to make
them work was with something like:
{
"index": "",
"body": {
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"query\_string": {
"query": ""
}
},
"filter": {
"and": {
"filters": [
{
"terms": {
"\": [
""
]
}
},
{
"terms": {
"\": [
""
]
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
}
It was kind of hard to produce and harder to understand the next day.
Do you have any suggestion on how to better approach the DSL?
thank you, best regards
lucio
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dsl-best-practices/22033/2 "2017-07-06T00:34:18Z")