Scout

Full-text search against a Meilisearch instance - Larust’s port of laravel/scout, Meilisearch only: self-hostable, matching this framework’s own “no required paid service” posture elsewhere (Reverb’s own WebSocket server, Db’s embedded key-value store).

  1. Adding this feature
  2. Indexing and searching
  3. Deliberately out of scope
  4. Next

Adding this feature 

# At scaffold time
xr new myapp --features scout

# Or retrofit onto an existing app
xr add scout

Both are equivalent to adding "scout" to larust-support’s features = [...] list in your app’s own Cargo.toml by hand.

# .env
MEILISEARCH_URL=http://127.0.0.1:7700   # default if unset
MEILISEARCH_KEY=your-master-key         # optional - omitted if a local dev instance has none

Indexing and searching 

use larust_support::scout;

// `document` must serialize to a JSON object with an "id" field -
// Meilisearch's own default primary-key convention, and the same `id`
// every `#[derive(Model)]` struct already has.
scout::index("posts", &post).await?;
scout::remove("posts", post.id).await?;

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
struct PostHit { id: i64, title: String }

let results: scout::SearchResults<PostHit> = scout::search("posts", "rust web framework").await?;
for hit in results.hits {
    println!("{}: {}", hit.id, hit.title);
}

No Searchable trait and no automatic model-lifecycle indexing - a save/ delete never silently triggers a search-index write on its own. Call index/remove explicitly wherever your own code already handles that write, the same way larust_queue::dispatch/larust_events::dispatch are explicit calls rather than implicit hooks. An index that’s never had a document written to it reads as zero search results, not an error - Meilisearch only auto-creates an index on a write, never on a search.

Deliberately out of scope

No index configuration (searchable/filterable/sortable attributes, typo tolerance, synonyms), filters, sorting, or facets in this version - plain q-only search, covering the common case; reach for reqwest directly against Meilisearch’s own settings endpoint for anything beyond that.

Next

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