Experiment with Django and Elasticsearch

This Django project explores the possibilities of full-text search and filtering using Elasticsearch.

Dependencies

The project depends on:

• Django ≥ 1.8
• Elasticsearch v6.2 - Server
• elasticsearch v6.2 - Python Elasticsearch Client
• elasticsearch-dsl v6.1 - Higher level library for the search queries
• django-elasticsearch-dsl v0.5.0 - Integration with Django package
• several other modules listed in the requirements.txt

Quickstart

1. Install and run Elasticsearch server. For example on macOS:

   $ brew install elasticsearch
   $ brew services start elasticsearch
   

2. Clone this project

3. Create a virtual environment, activate it, and install Python dependencies

   • If you use pipenv, go to project's directory and run:

     $ mkdir .venv
     $ pipenv install
     $ pipenv shell
     

   • Otherwise, proceed the good old way:

     $ virtualenv venv
     $ source venv/bin/activate
     (venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
     

4. Build the search index for the database:

   (venv)$ python manage.py search_index --rebuild
   

5. Run local webserver:

   (venv)$ python manage.py runserver
   

6. Open http://127.0.0.1:8000 to play around with the search.