🔍 CISI Search Interface – Next.js + Flask + Elasticsearch

This project is a web-based search interface built with Next.js that allows users to search and retrieve documents from the CISI dataset via a Flask API backed by Elasticsearch.

📚 About

The application consists of:

• Frontend: Built with Next.js (React), featuring a responsive search bar and result display.
• Backend: A Flask REST API that connects to Elasticsearch and indexes the CISI dataset.
• Dataset: The CISI (Information Retrieval) dataset commonly used in information retrieval research.

🌐 Live Demo

🟢 https://your-deployed-url.com
(Replace with your deployed frontend URL)

🚀 Features

• Full-text search across the CISI dataset
• Instant search with autocomplete
• Clean, responsive UI using React
• Fast query results using Elasticsearch
• Environment-configurable API base URL

🧱 Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js, React
• Backend: Flask, Elasticsearch
• Data: CISI Dataset
• Deployment: Vercel (frontend), Render (backend) (or customize based on your stack)

🔧 Environment Variables

Set the API endpoint for the Flask server in .env.local:

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL=https://es-cisi.onrender.com