What's Everyone's Favorite Approach For Search Solutions With Shopify/Gatsby?

What is everyone's favourite approach for search solutions with Shopify/Gatsby setups? Our initial projects have been light on search requirements but we have an upcoming project where it will be a more substantial part of the UX.
I have heard that Algolia is:

• powerful and flexible
• complex (again, I'm not technical
🙂 )• expensive
But I haven't heard much discussion of headless search beyond Algiloa... any opinions out there?

i mean sanities new search could actually handle it for you?

gatsby really isn’t that expensive if you only leverage it for search

people don’t search as everyone thinks

and the available tiers are flexible

but i also build my own json files and fuse/lunr js search those for anyone scared of algolia

will probably shift to sanity search now

json files and fuse/lunr js search

do you end up providing any sort of search analytics/dashboard Kevin?
Or do you just ensure search is properly plugged into GA and say

go get your search data there

?

for local json i bubble ga events

the algolia dashboard is rad… if the client actually opens it

Right.

Yeh, it's a fair point about folks overestimating search.
We've had consistent experiences with some of the middle-weight solutions on Shopify like Searchanise. Just trying to assess our headless parity.

Thanks again.

Cheers 🙏

To echo this, for some use cases Algolia is great. We don’t offer faceted search for example, but we should be able to handle more cases directly from GROQ now. In addition for smaller sets running Fuse against a client cache of all relevant fields is both fast and flexible.