Inverted-index

This Application is an implementation of Elastic Search indexing algorithm which is designed to allow for fas full-text search. An Inverted-index consists of a list of all the unique words that appear in any document, and for each word, a list of the documents in which it appears.

Features

• Upload of JSON file in the format below

[
    {
        "title": "This is a sample title",
        "text": "And this is a sample text"
    }
]

• Indexing of uploaded file
• Searching of each indexed file

Usage

This can be accessed here.

It can be used locally with the following steps

• Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/andela-aatanda/checkpoint1-inverted-index.git
• Move into the repository directory cd checkpoint1-inverted-index
• Run npm install to install all dependencies (Node must be installed on your local machine already)

Dependencies

1. connect
2. gulp
3. gulp-connect
4. serve-static

npm install

• Start the application with npm start

Limitations

• Only files with .json extension can be indexed
• Search is limited to one file at a time

More information

• [Inverted Index - Wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index)
• Inverted Index