Add full-text search to your application

You now know everything you need to add full-text search capabilities to your application.

Open up the code from the server file server/controllers/movies.mjs once more, and edit the search method to use full-text search.

tip

You'll need to use the aggregate method instead of the find method you used earlier. Check out the documentation for more details.

Answer

  async search(searchTerm) {
    const movies = await collection
      .aggregate([
        {
          $search: {
            index: "default",
            text: {
              query: searchTerm,
              path: {
                wildcard: "*",
              },
            },
          },
        },
        {
          $project: {
            title: 1,
            year: 1,
            "imdb.rating": 1,
            fullplot: 1,
            poster: 1,
            released: 1,
            genres: 1
          },
        },
        {
          $limit: 20
        }
      ]).toArray();

    return movies;
  }