I have just made the first (unnumbered) release of Solrstrap available on github http://fergiemcdowall.github.com/solrstrap/ Solrstrap is a Query-Result interface for Solr- it is intended to be a starting point for those building web interfaces that talk to Solr, or a very lightweight admin tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion. Cool things about Solrstrap: [...]
Update 20th Feb 2013: Instant search is now implemented on Solrstrap, the lightweight Solr interface written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Check it out here. Here is a quick demo that demonstrates how to create an “instant search” service using JSON, ajax and JQuery. This instant search application uses the excellent OpenSearch interface provided by [...]
Update: Aug 5th 2012 A live demo of asynchronous search results with JQuery, Solr, Json and Ajax can now be found here There are many reasons to load search results asynchronously- most of the big searchy dotcoms are going in this direction with Google, Facebook and Twitter all relying heavily on ajax to render their [...]
