RFC Search

Search all the RFCs with Typesense and Instantsearch.js

Requirements

• Docker
• Nodejs (optionally, or docker-compose)

How-To (without docker)

• This requires a Nodejs installation
• Download all the RFCs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/tar/RFC-all.tar.gz
• Extract the archive to public/rfcs/ (once extracted, the files will need ~2GB)
• Copy .env.example to .env and make adjustments as neccessary
• Run ./typesenseserver.sh to start a Typesense server instance via docker and create the typesense-data directory
  This will need another ~1GB
• In a second termianl run npm install
• Run node bulkImport.js to import everything from public/rfcs/ into Typesense
• Wait
• Run node index.mjs server and visit e.g. http://localhost:3000, depending on your setup

How-To (with docker)

• Download all the RFCs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/tar/RFC-all.tar.gz
• Extract the archive to public/rfcs/ (once extracted, the files will need ~2GB)
• Copy .env.example to .env and make adjustments as neccessary
• Run ./typesenseserver.sh to start a Typesense server instance via docker and create the typesense-data directory
  This will need another ~1GB
• In a second terminal run docker build -t rfcsearch .
• Run docker-compose up
• In a third terminal run docker run --rm --network rfcsearch_default -v ./public/rfcs:/app/public/rfcs rfcsearch:latest bulkImport.mjs
• Wait and visist e.g. http://localhost:3000, depending on your setup