Search Firestore with Typesense

How this extension works

Use this extension to sync data from your Firestore collection to Typesense , to be able to do full-text fuzzy search on your Firestore data.

This extension listens to your specified Firestore collection and syncs Firestore documents to Typesense on creation, updates and deletes. It also provides a function to help you backfill data.

Additional setup

Before installing this extension, make sure that you have:

1. Set up a Cloud Firestore database in your Firebase project.
2. Setup a Typesense cluster (on Typesense Cloud or a Self-Hosted server).
3. Setup a Typesense Collection either through the Typesense Cloud dashboard or through the API.

This extension will sync changes that happen after you've installed the extension. You'll be able to run a function to backfill existing data in your Firestore collection. Detailed information for running this backfill function will be provided after you install this extension.

Billing

To install an extension, your project must be on the Blaze (pay as you go) plan

• You will be charged a small amount (typically around $0.01/month) for the Firebase resources required by this extension (even if it is not used).
• This extension uses other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform services, which have associated charges if you exceed the service’s free tier:
  • Cloud Firestore
  • Cloud Functions (Node.js 14+ runtime. See FAQs )
• Usage of this extension also requires you to have a running Typesense cluster either on Typesense Cloud or some self-hosted server. You are responsible for any associated costs with these services.