Build an Integration for Meilisearch

To guarantee consistency and quality across all Meilisearch integrations, we request that you consider the following guidelines when creating a new integration.

1. Leading Principle: User Experience First

The integration should consider user experience: it should be as easy to use and intuitive as possible. In particular, the primary usage of the integration must be accessible.

Feel free to contact us if you're hesitating over an implementation decision.

2. README

At a minimum, the README must contain:

• A well-explained Getting Started section: the user should be able to copy/paste the code and command examples, and everything should work as expected.
• Basic code examples for the most common actions.

We recommend checking out the READMEs of our other integration repositories, like this one.

3. CONTRIBUTING.md

All integration repositories must contain a file titled CONTRIBUTING.md. The template is here and should be filled according to the details of your repository..

3.1 Docker & Docker-compose

To ease the maintenance, the integration should be ready to use with Docker, and it must contain a Docker Compose file configurated following these patterns:

• Must have a service package and a meilisearch service.
  • Must depend and contain a link to meilisearch service.
• The meilisearch service should point to latest tag.
  • MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS should be set to true
  • MEILI_MASTER_KEY should be set to masterKey

version: "3.8"

volumes:
  pub:

services:
  package:
    image: dart:latest # this sample comes from the Dart SDK.
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    working_dir: /home/package
    environment:
      - MEILISEARCH_URL=http://meilisearch:7700
      - PUB_CACHE=/vendor/pub-cache
    depends_on:
      - meilisearch
    links:
      - meilisearch
    volumes:
      - pub:/vendor/pub-cache
      - ./:/home/package

  meilisearch:
    image: getmeili/meilisearch:latest
    ports:
      - "7700"
    environment:
      - MEILI_MASTER_KEY=masterKey
      - MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS=true

4. Minimal Provided Methods

At a minimum, your integration must support the following:

• all functionality related to document manipulation.
• all functionality related to search, including search parameters.
• a basic error handler that wraps and throws the Meilisearch errors.
• ensure the correct headers are being sent:
  • the User-Agent header should contain this value i.e. Meilisearch PHP (v1.0.1), Meilisearch Strapi (v1.0.1), can also contain more than one: Meilisearch PHP (v1.0.1); Meilisearch Laravel (v12.1.5);

⚠️ All routes not yet implemented in the integration should be reported as an issue in the repository.

5. Tests

Each public method (i.e., the exposed part of the integration) should be tested against the Meilisearch instance. This ensures the provided methods work at any time.

Mock testing is accepted but should not be prioritized since it would require regularly updating the mocked server to account for breaking changes.

If you want to start writing your tests and are looking for a reference, you can find tests in most of our repositories, such as meilisearch-php and meilisearch-js.

6. Linter and Style

Your integration should contain a linter to ease contributions and maintenance.

We recommend adding a .editorconfig file so everyone can follow minimal styling rules.

7. Continuous Integration (CI)

All integration repositories should run a CI workflow before merging into the main branch. It should ensure that:

• the tests are successful with the latest version of Meilisearch. No need to support older versions of Meilisearch since Meilisearch is not stable at this time.
• the linter does not throw any errors.

This guarantees the quality of the package and provides a welcoming environment for contributions.

8. Publishing

The release versioning should follow the Semantic Versioning Convention and should have clear changelogs (in a CHANGELOG.md file or in the GitHub release description as we do in our repositories).

Thank you for reading this through ❤️ Feel free to contact us with any questions!