Has anyone had experience integrating craft with algolia: https://www.algolia.com for realtime search of craft entries.
It seems like there are a few potential approaches with their Php and Js libraries. Does anyone recommend a particular approach or best practice for integrating a service like this with Craft.
Disclaimer : I'm the dev of the SearchPlus plugin
The SearchPlus plugin by SquareBit (currently in private beta) integrates directly with Algolia and handles all the index population and updates.
There's also a few helpers for integrating on the front-end.
All told - you should be able to just drop the plugin onto the site, configure your indexes and start a population action, drop a bit of js on the front-end and you're done.
Drop me a line and I'll get you on the beta.
Seems like a pretty straight forward integration with a Craft plugin, then.
They've already got a PHP client up on packagist and what looks to be pretty extensive documentation how to use it.
There is an open-source Craft 2.x plugin for Algolia:
https://github.com/joshuabaker/craft-algolia
I haven't used it, but it would be a good place to start.
