Build a powerful, highly performant search application with React, Apache Solr, and Drupal

Chris Russo and Dan Murphy

This spring, our team built a high performing, ultra fast search interface for a client Drupal site using React JS, Apache Solr, and the Drupal Search API module.

This project allowed the client to leverage some of the well-established benefits of decoupling Drupal's content from the presentation layer, while also avoiding many of the challenges that complete decoupling involves.

Insights you'll get from this talk:

We'll explain the architecture decisions and the tradeoffs needed to build this interface
Gotchas with Apache Solr and the Search API default configuration
Best practices for including React in your Drupal project
Considerations for how the same technique could be used to improve other aspects of a Drupal site

https://www.drupalasheville.com/2018/session/build-powerful-highly-performant-search-application-react-apache-solr-and-drupal

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