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Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

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Re: Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

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This is a neat project.

I would encourage more development be done to have the type cover more of the front end code. Your development environment must not be of much help due to the heavy use of the "any" type throughout the codebase, which essentially escapes out of the type system.

Re: Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

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This is a neat project. I would encourage more development be done to have the type cover more of the front end code. Your development environment must not be of much help due to the heavy use of the "any" type throughout the codebase, which essentially escapes out of the type system.

Thanks, it started out as regular, valid JS, then I figured I might as well convert it to TypeScript, and I did so (perhaps too) quickly. I do plan to add stronger typing later.

Re: Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

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You mean you built a frontend for Google, not a search engine.

That's literally in the title. It says METASearch engine, not search engine. I have never claimed it was a search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

Re: Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

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I see that you are scraping the results directly, curious if you’d tried out Google’s json search api? Any thoughts about it? I was about to need it or similar for a project.

I haven't tried it, I'm afraid.
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