Typesense Search Engine for Magento 2

Magento's native search runs on Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. Making an attribute filterable invalidates the catalog search index, so a single flag change turns into a full reindex, which on a large catalog is a long job.

A free, open-source Typesense search engine for Magento 2.4.9 (PHP 8.3–8.5, Typesense 30+), split into three Packagist packages:

typesense-core: client, collections, aliases, documents, schema reconciler

typesense-indexer: builds and updates the index, patches the schema, syncs synonyms

typesense-search: registers Typesense as a selectable engine for quick and advanced search, category listings, layered navigation, price ranges, native search synonyms and "did you mean"

Full reindex builds a new collection per store view, imports in batches and swaps the alias as the last step, so the storefront keeps reading the old collection until the new one is ready. Orphaned versions are dropped after each swap

Changing is_filterable applies an in-place schema PATCH that rebuilds from documents already stored, with no reimport (README example: about 0.3 s on 50k documents). It falls back to native invalidation when a PATCH is unsafe or the change is above a configurable threshold

Partial updates upsert changed products first and only then delete the rest in batches, so products do not disappear mid-update

Extension points are DI-sorted pipelines (query modifiers, response processors), not preference overrides

Differences from Elasticsearch/OpenSearch are documented, e.g. SKU prefix matching and position sort with several categories

Integration tests run against a real Typesense instance