More relevant examples...

[mackelito]

We have been told to use the search-insights lib but most examples use eg instant-search, algoliasearch etc...

const searchClient = algoliasearch('APPLICATION_ID', 'SEARCH_API_KEY');
const search = instantsearch({
  indexName: 'INDEX_NAME',
  searchClient,
  searchParameters: {
    clickAnalytics: true,
  },
});

when looking at the ReadMe of https://github.com/algolia/search-insights.js I expect to see example using this lib only (unless other are required)

[eunjae-lee]

Hi @mackelito thanks for your feedback.
To understand your situation, are you using algoliasearch with search-insights? Or, nothing at all but only search-insights?

[mackelito]

We only use search-insights our backend will do all the fetching of products :)

[eunjae-lee]

@mackelito Oh I see. What kind of examples do you expect that aren't there yet?

[mackelito]

It might just be me but there are some things that looks confusing,

eg.
https://github.com/algolia/search-insights.js#initialize

const searchClient = algoliasearch('APPLICATION_ID', 'SEARCH_API_KEY');

This makes me think that you also need to add the algoliasearch library..? (npm install algoliasearch)
Does that mean that we can't do Click Analytics and A/B testing without it?

...and then you get to https://github.com/algolia/search-insights.js#report-a-click-event
and realise that the code above has nothing to do with tracking.. it's just to get the products.. and that we do thru our own custom api's 😄

similar for Personalization...

const searchClient = algoliasearch('APPLICATION_ID', 'SEARCH_API_KEY');
const search = instantsearch({
  indexName: 'INDEX_NAME',
  searchClient,
  searchParameters: {
    enablePersonalization: true,
  },
});

It looks like this has nothing to do with search-insights.. right?

Any how.. might be me just ranting a bit 😉

[eunjae-lee]

@mackelito Now I see what you mean. It can be confusing. I guess so far we've had mostly customers using search-insights and algoliasearch on the same page. However, we can split the doc and separate the api reference part from setting parameters. Thanks for your insight!

[mackelito]

I know what that's like.. way to easy to forget to separate libs and sdk's that have/can have deps :)