How to get started with Elasticsearch to implement it in a web app?

Hey! I'm a big fan of Elasticsearch and love how well it fits into the apps I make.

If I were starting over with it, I would...

1. Get familiar with the use cases

Here's a post/video I made on the subject:
dev.to/_codingblocks/elasticsearch...

IMHO, Elasticsearch has 4 major use cases:

• Full Text Search
• Aggregations
• Near Real Time Monitoring
• Monitoring / Alerting

2. Setup a local development environment

I made a little post about that too. This post will guide you through setting things up in docker, and importing some sample data from dev.to:
dev.to/_codingblocks/quickstart-gu...

3. Make a little web app

Once you have things running locally, you can make a little app with a search box that will display the results. Here is a basic query that will search all text fields in all indexes:

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "simple_query_string": {
      "query": "Your Search Here"
    }
  }
}

4. Make it better

Now that you've got a little web app set up, you can start having fun! Add search auto-complete, paging, charts, faceted navigation, make some dashboards in Kibana etc.