Posts tagged with algolia
It's funny that even something as simple as a blog app is never finished. One and a half years ago, I did a significant update my moving my blog from WordPress to a Laravel app. In August of last year, I also ditched my custom admin section in favor of Nova. Even though not that much time has passed, it was time for a refresh of the entire blog.
Last month at the Laravel PHP Paris meetup, Nuno Maduro introduced his newest package called Scout Extended.
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Till Krüss released a cool Alfred workflow to easily search the docs. Here it is in action.
Behind the scenes it uses an Algolia index to retrieve the results. I've been only using it for a day and I can't image how I could have lived without this so long.
https://github.com/tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs
On Scotch.io a new post by Julien Bourdeau was published that shows how you can easily import and search geographic data with Laravel Scout and Algolia.
Laravel Scout makes it very easy to setup an external search engine to create consumer-grade search quickly. The package comes with Algolia as a default search engine. I'd like to demonstrate how to make use of the geo-location search feature with Scout.In this tutorial, you'll learn how to prepare your data for Algolia and Laravel Scout to retrieve items based on location.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/achieving-geo-search-with-laravel-scout-and-algolia
A few days ago Spatie, the company where I work, launched a new website: vrijwilligerswerk.be. Translated to english it roughly comes down to workforvolunteers.be. On the website various organizations can post their jobs that can be filled by a volunteer. Volunteers have a very user-friendly way to…