Swell (Ecommerce) / Algolia Integration

This Module is a deep integration with Swell and Algolia allowing you to rank, facet and replicate

This module deploys to AWS Lambda

Install

You'll need serverless to run this and a AWS account or other provider

npm install -g serverless

Config

set a .env file

SWELL_STORE_ID=***
SWELL_SECRET_KEY=***
ALGOLIA_INDEX=swell_products
ALGOLIA_APP_ID=***
ALGOLIA_ADMIN_API_KEY=***

Algolia Config

Update the Algolia config (algolia.config.json) to what you need for your project.

Field	Description
defaultRanking	The ranking of your default index ALGOLIA_INDEX
rankings	The individual rankings for using sort, will create a seperate replica per ranking
searchableAttributes	Algolia searchable Attributes
attributesForFaceting	Algolia Facetable Attributes

{
  "defaultRanking": ["desc(name)"],
  "rankings": [
    {
      "suffix": "price_desc",
      "ranking": [
        "desc(price)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "suffix": "price_asc",
      "ranking": [
        "desc(price)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "searchableAttributes": ["name"],
  "attributesForFaceting": ["attribute.brand", "categories"]
}

Quick Start

The commands below will deploy the serverless function to AWS then create the indexes

sls deploy
sls invoke --function init
sls invoke --function reindex

sls invoke --function init will create the replicas based on your algolia.config.json sls invoke --function reindex will pull all the products into Algolia

Install webhooks on Swell

Developer > Webhooks > Add Webhook

And create a webhook as so:

Replace my-serverless-domain with your cloudfront, or route53 domain generated from serverless on deploy

Replace stage with your environment stage so something like dev or prod