If you are super search-savvy, you may already be familiar with Elastic and its power and flexibility. However, we understand not everyone has these skills — and for many of us having a basic and easy-to-use search mechanism can be desirable.
That's where fluent search comes in!
It's meant to be easy to learn, quick to do the basics, but also capable enough to address fairly powerful search use cases.
Fluent search is just a set of classes and methods over the same back-end APIs. So your queries will run as fast as ever, but defining them should now require less effort.
It'll probably help to look at a side-by-side comparison. Let's use one of our existing examples to illustrate. In this scenario, imagine you are searching for all assets that are marked as verified but are missing a description (suggesting they are in fact incomplete):
The various snippets, patterns and examples on the portal have all been updated to show off fluent search. To learn more specifically about search, check out: