Building a search experience with the Search Application client

In this recipe, we’ll see how to leverage the Elastic-provided Search Application client to build a very simple and effective frontend for our movie index. We’ll build upon what we did in the previous recipe with the Search Application, acting as the backend of our client.

Getting ready

To follow along in this recipe, you’ll need an Elastic deployment up and running with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fleet Server. Make sure you have followed the previous recipe, Getting started with Search Application for your Elasticsearch index, as we’ll be reusing the Search Application.

Make sure to have an Enterprise Search node in your cluster. If you are running an Elastic Cloud deployment you should have one by default. For self-managed clusters, follow the instructions outlined here: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/enterprise-search.

You will also need to have Node.js installed on your machine...