ReactiveBase is a container component that wraps all the ReactiveSearch components together. It binds the backend app (data source) with the UI view components (elements wrapped within ReactiveBase), allowing a UI component to be reactively updated every time there is a change in the data source or in other UI components.

This is the first component you will need to add when using ReactiveSearch.

Usage

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<ReactiveBase
  app="appname"
  credentials="abcdef123:abcdef12-ab12-ab12-ab12-abcdef123456"
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

Props

  • app String app name as it appears on the dashboard.
  • credentials String [optional] app credentials as they appear on the dashboard. It should be a string of the format "username:password" and is used for authenticating the app. If you are not using an appbase.io app, credentials may not be necessary - although having an open-access Elasticsearch cluster is not recommended.
  • url String [optional] URL where Elasticsearch cluster is hosted, only needed if your app uses a non appbase.io URL.
  • type String [optional] types on which the queries should run on. Multiple types can be passed as comma separated values. The default behavior here is to search on all the app types.
  • theming Object [optional] allows over-writing of default styles by providing the respective key/values. You can read more about its usage here.

Connect to Elasticsearch

Note

An app within ReactiveSearch’s context refers to an index in Elasticsearch.

ReactiveSearch works out of the box with an Elasticsearch index hosted anywhere. You can use the url prop of the ReactiveBase component to connect the child ReactiveSearch components to your own index. For example,

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<ReactiveBase
  app="appname"
  url="http://your-elasticsearch-index"
>
    <Component1 .. />
    <Component2 .. />
</ReactiveBase>

It's also possible to secure your Elasticsearch cluster's access with a middleware proxy server that is connected to ReactiveSearch. This allows you to set up custom authorization rules, prevent misuse, only pass back non-sensitive data, etc. Here's an example app where we show this using a Node.JS / Express middleware:

Note

If you are using the url prop for an Elasticsearch cluster, ensure that your ReactiveSearch app can access the cluster. Typically, you will need to configure CORS in elasticsearch.yml to enable access.

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http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-credentials: true
http.cors.allow-origin: 'http://reactive-search-app-domain.com:port'
http.cors.allow-headers: X-Requested-With, X-Auth-Token, Content-Type, Content-Length, Authorization, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Accept

Note

If you are using Elasticsearch on AWS, then the recommended approach is to connect via the middleware proxy as they don't allow setting the Elasticsearch configurations.

Next Steps

Once you have added the ReactiveBase component, you can get started with adding other components as its children.

You can read more about when to use which components in the overview guide here.