Search guides

Welcome to the Search guides section of the Luigi's Box documentation. This collection of guides provides everything you need to build a comprehensive and high-performing search results page, helping users find exactly what they're looking for with speed and precision. Here, you will learn about the different integration strategies, from the quick and easy Search.js library to a fully custom implementation using our direct Search API.

General Guides

Understanding Luigi's Box Search: Features and integration paths

Learn to choose the best architectural path (frontend vs. backend) for integrating Luigi's Box Search.

Understanding and influencing result ranking

Learn to understand the core signals of the search ranking model and how to influence it with product data and manual adjustments.

Quickstart: Implementing variant search

Learn to configure different modes for searching and displaying product variants in your search results.

API Integration

Quickstart: Building a custom Search UI with the Search API

Learn how to build a minimal but functional search results page using Luigi's Box Search API and your own JavaScript.

Library Integration

Quickstart: Integrating search.js for a full search page

Learn to quickly build a feature-rich search results page on your website using the Search.js library.

Quickstart: Customizing the search UI with Search.js

Learn to tailor the look and feel of the Search.js widget by overriding its default HTML templates