Elastic API consumption at Client Side (Browser) using JavaScript

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Just curious to know if there we can consume ES API (only GET Http Requests) on client side i.e. browser using JavaScript of the browser (note: not Server Side JavaScript i.e. Nodejs).

Is server, as the client, the only way to consume ES API?

Please guide!

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Not sure I understood the question. Are you looking for a js client for elasticsearch?

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@dadoonet I already know about https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/introduction.html (which is for Nodejs JavaScript) but I am asking for ES API JS SDK to use at Frontend React JS.

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Hello,

I've got the same question.

In front-end, what should we use to consume an elastic search server?

The official JS Client is only for node.js.

We certainly could consume it via fetch/axios as classic REST API, but it misses a lot of sugar methods to consume easier the server.

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Not exactly the answer you are looking for but here is an interesting link IMO for people building their own UI on top of Site Search or App Search: https://swiftype.com/search-ui

Note that App Search is in beta: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/app-search

I've seen some similar components on the web working on top of elasticsearch. A google search might gives you some results.

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For the moment, I use Searchkit and ReactiveSearch, but I wanted to build my own queries, but with some sugar/with a client, not directly the whole payload on a raw http query.

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Thank you, I'll have a look to Search UI.

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I was also looking to know if we can consume The API on the client side, with Angular 8 HttpClient and working with Observable, and of course an official lib of the elastic ...

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