Installing Typesense on macOS

Typesense is an open-source search engine that's built for ease of use and speed. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the steps required to install Typesense on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before we get started with the installation, you'll need to make sure that your macOS system meets the following requirements:

  • macOS version 10.13 or later
  • Homebrew package manager
  • The latest version of curl

If you haven't already installed Homebrew or updated curl, run the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

This will install or update Homebrew, and install the latest version of curl.

Installing Typesense

Now that we have our prerequisites out of the way, we can focus on installing Typesense. Follow the steps below:

  1. Open your Terminal app on macOS.

  2. Run the following command to add the Typesense tap to Homebrew:

brew tap typesense/tap
  1. Once the tap has been added, run the following command to install Typesense:
brew install typesense
  1. Verify the Typesense installation using the following command:
typesense-server --version

This should output the version of Typesense that was just installed, confirming that it's running correctly.

Starting Typesense

To start the Typesense server, run the following command from the terminal:

typesense-server --data-dir=/usr/local/var/lib/typesense

This will start Typesense and create a directory where the data is stored (/usr/local/var/lib/typesense in this case).

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Typesense on macOS. Now you can start using it for your search needs. For more information on how to use Typesense, check out the official documentation on https://typesense.org.