meteor-lunr

Lunr.js packaged for meteor

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Installation

The preferred method is to add this package directly into your Meteorite's smart.json package file:

{
  "packages": {
    "meteor-lunr" : { 
	"branch" : "master",
	"git" : "https://github.com/electricjesus/meteor-lunr.git"
    }
  }
}

Then run mrt install.

Or you could install via Atmosphere: mrt add lunr

Don't have Meteorite, yet?

It's easy! Just run sudo -H npm install -g meteorite (provided you already have the latest Node/NPM). For more info visit this page:

https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite#installing-meteorite

Getting Started / Recommended Usage

To begin adding text search capabilities to your app, this is a good way to start:

Let's say we're trying to find/match items in Venues.

On the server:

Meteor.startup(function(e) {

    Venues.index = Meteor.lunr(function() {
        this.field('name', {boost: 10});
        this.field('description');
        this.ref('_id');
    });

    Venues.find({},{fields : {name: 1, description: 1}}).forEach(function(v,i$
        Venues.index.add(v);
    });

});


Meteor.methods({
    searchVenues: function( matchText ) {
        check(matchText, String);
        return Venues.index.search(matchText);
    }
});

Then, on the client:

Meteor.call('searchVenues','search term here', function(e,result) {
    if(typeof e === 'undefined') {
        Session.set('searchResultsReferences', result);
    } else {
        //handle error here.
    }
}

You can now use Session.get('searchResultsReferences') to assemble an array of _id's to filter a Venues.find() call:

// uses underscorejs
Venues.find({_id: {
    $in : _.map(Session.get('searchResultsReferences'), function(e) { return e.ref})
}
});

Enjoy!

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