This page will explain how to create account on Algolia and integrate with the site.
Algolia provides a free-tier account allowing you to index up to 10K index entries without cost.
- go to Algolia site and click on Free trial.
- Even if it says "free trial" as long as your index size stays under 10k, you will not be chared.
- Since you already created a Google Account you can select Google as the sign up mechanism. Fill in the form and press Next.
- Choose your datacenter location, the place closest to you.
- Chose the type of project that fits best. Then press Next.
Now you have an account. The next step is to create an index.
- Go to Dashboard and accept the terms and conditions.
- Sine it's your first time, you will see a Create Index button, click it.
- In the "Create index" form, enter the name of your index, something like prod_{your_website}_website
That's the value you will use for ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME env variable.
Now you have an index, the next step is to obtain the different keys
Go to the left menu and scroll down until you see API keys, click it.
In the root directory create a .env file and plug in the values for:
ALGOLIA_APP_ID=
ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME=
ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY=
ALGOLIA_ADMIN_API_kEY=
And save the .env file. This will enable search in the local run.
We don't want to check the .env file, it is already included in .gitignore.
Go to GitLab CI/CD and create variables for all the values obtained above