Ok so I have successfully done this with solr!

This is probably obvious to all expert nodebb people here, but for me I had to really look at the source code/docs/google to understand how the eco system works.

After configuring the nodebb-plugin-solr the api call out of the box looks like /api/search/KEYWORD?in=titlespost I am still trying to figure out how the plugin is hooked up with the core and how this route triggers the solr query.

Simply with ajax I just make a get request to the route and with the response I see now how I can use ajaxify.

// search function
$('form.search').on('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    var word = $(this).find('input.searchV').val();

    $.ajax({
        url: '/api/search/'+word+'?in=titlesposts',
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'html',
        success: function (data) {
            var parsed = JSON.parse(data);
            var results = parsed;

            console.log(results);
            
            // TODO: pass results.posts into template
            ajaxify.loadTemplate('partials/search_results_topic', function(resultItem) {
                var html = templates.parse(resultItem, results);
                $('.topic-list').html(html);
            });

        },error: function(data) {

            // TODO: error handling
            console.log(data);
        }
    });

});

@qgp9 said:

vertheless, I don't discourage you to use docker!!, I encourage it
I'm just giving a most important tip here. "Don't use docker for production before you know how to deal with a concept of a temporary container" but GOOD FOR TEST AND LEARN.

Thanks for the positive answer, it was fun playing around with docker. I ended up realizing the most simple solution was just to share one redis db, duh right. It was good to play around with docker though I did learn a bit.

On my mac I have everything working smoothly when I deployed it on my linux server everything runs fine except for the call to the Categories module.

Here is how I call the module inside my /theme.js file inside the root of my theme.

console.log(module.parent)
var Categories = module.parent.require("./Categories");

I took a look at the result of module.parent and I am not seeing categories available, but I do see it available locally.

I tried hard linking to the module ../../src/Categories but no luck.

Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?

I found the answer https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/themes/templates.html

<!-- BEGIN posts -->
<!-- IF @first -->
<h1>Main Author: {posts.username}</h1>
<!-- ENDIF @first -->
{posts.content}
<!-- IF @last -->
End of posts. Click here to scroll to the top.
<!-- ENDIF @last -->
<!-- END posts -->

If I want to preserve the functionality of the nodebb-plugin-composer-default but insert my own template how can I do that?