ElasticUI

Languages and libraries

ui component library

SHOW HN2014

39points
9comments
#810of 2,272 in 2014
Top 36%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

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1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for quickly putting a UI in front of an index

    From 1 comment
    • It looks nice, certainly it would be useful to have something quick to throw up in front of an index. What initially came to mind as something I would look for is tangential -…
      konradb on HN
  • Helpful for building custom search pages quickly

    From 1 comment
    • Looks really nice. We did something similar building a general ES Backbone framework a while ago. https://github.com/automattic/es-backbone/ We've deployed about 5 or 6 different…
      gibrown on HN

Objections

  • Exposing Elasticsearch directly to the internet is a security risk

    From 2 comments
    • It looks nice, certainly it would be useful to have something quick to throw up in front of an index. What initially came to mind as something I would look for is tangential -…
      konradb on HN
    • Their Kibana dashboard is just an Angular app that calls ES directly: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/ "NOTE: Kibana 3 talks directly to Elasticsearch from the…
      Scottopherson on HN
  • Prefers building an API layer rather than calling search index from AngularJS

    From 1 comment
    • I rather build an API around my search index rather than call it directly from AngularJS, but that may just be me.
      AznHisoka on HN

Requests

  • Ability to test queries

    From 1 comment
    • I've built an AngularJS app on top of Elasticsearch but it was specific to my index. I used the Elasticsearch angular adapter that comes with the JS client and wrote a…
      abrudtkuhl on HN
  • Generic way to browse an index

    From 1 comment
    • I've built an AngularJS app on top of Elasticsearch but it was specific to my index. I used the Elasticsearch angular adapter that comes with the JS client and wrote a…
      abrudtkuhl on HN

Questions

  • How to use it safely when the index is exposed publicly

    From 1 comment
    • It looks nice, certainly it would be useful to have something quick to throw up in front of an index. What initially came to mind as something I would look for is tangential -…
      konradb on HN

Alternatives named

  • Kibana

    From 1 comment
    • Their Kibana dashboard is just an Angular app that calls ES directly: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/ "NOTE: Kibana 3 talks directly to Elasticsearch from the…
      Scottopherson on HN
  • Sense Chrome plugin / Marvel

    From 1 comment
    • I've built an AngularJS app on top of Elasticsearch but it was specific to my index. I used the Elasticsearch angular adapter that comes with the JS client and wrote a…
      abrudtkuhl on HN
  • es-backbone

    From 1 comment
    • Looks really nice. We did something similar building a general ES Backbone framework a while ago. https://github.com/automattic/es-backbone/ We've deployed about 5 or 6 different…
      gibrown on HN
  • solr-security-proxy

    From 1 comment
    • I built a simple nodejs-based proxy that's meant to sit in front of a world exposed solr instance: https://github.com/dergachev/solr-security-proxy/ Perhaps it could be adapted…
      dergachev on HN

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