Algolia SDK Patterns

Overview

Production-ready patterns for algoliasearch v5. Key architectural change from v4: all methods live on the client directly — no more client.initIndex(). Index name is passed as a parameter to every call.

Prerequisites

• algoliasearch v5+ installed
• Completed algolia-install-auth setup
• TypeScript project (patterns work in JS too, you just lose type safety)

Instructions

Pattern 1: Typed Singleton Client

// src/algolia/client.ts
import { algoliasearch, type Algoliasearch } from 'algoliasearch';