specification: API Commons Components
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Algolia
providerId: algolia
generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-is-instantsearch/js/
sources:
  - https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-is-instantsearch/js/
  - https://www.algolia.com/developers/
  - https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch
  - https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete
  - https://github.com/algolia/docsearch
description: >-
  Algolia's client-side surface is unusually large for an API company: three distinct embeddable component families
  plus a hosted documentation-search widget. These are DISTINCT from the API clients in packages/ - a consumer
  installs an API client to talk to the REST API, and installs these to render a search experience.
families:
  - name: InstantSearch
    kind: widget-library
    description: >-
      The flagship widget library for building full search and browse experiences - SearchBox, Hits, RefinementList,
      Pagination, SortBy, RangeSlider, Breadcrumb, and the surrounding state machine.
    docs: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-is-instantsearch/js/
    repo: https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch
    flavors:
      - platform: JavaScript
        package: instantsearch.js
        registry: npm
        version: 4.113.0
        published: '2026-08-25'
      - platform: React
        package: react-instantsearch
        registry: npm
        version: 7.46.0
        published: '2026-08-25'
      - platform: Vue
        package: vue-instantsearch
        registry: npm
        version: 4.29.5
        published: '2026-08-25'
      - platform: Angular
        package: angular-instantsearch
        registry: npm
        version: 4.4.3
        published: '2024-09-05'
        note: Stale relative to the other flavors.
      - platform: iOS
        repo: https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch-ios
      - platform: Android
        repo: https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch-android
    loader:
      package: algoliasearch-helper
      registry: npm
      version: 3.29.3
      published: '2026-08-06'
      note: The shared search-state engine every InstantSearch flavor builds on.
  - name: Autocomplete
    kind: widget-library
    description: >-
      Standalone as-you-type autocomplete library with a source-based architecture - typically fed by an Algolia
      index plus a Query Suggestions index, but source-agnostic.
    docs: https://www.algolia.com/doc/ui-libraries/autocomplete/introduction/what-is-autocomplete/
    repo: https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete
    flavors:
      - platform: JavaScript
        package: '@algolia/autocomplete-js'
        registry: npm
        version: 1.19.9
        published: '2026-06-23'
    backing_api: Algolia Query Suggestions API (openapi/algolia-query-suggestions-api-openapi.yml)
  - name: DocSearch
    kind: hosted-widget
    description: >-
      Algolia's free, hosted documentation search - Algolia runs the crawler and the index, the site embeds the
      widget. Carries its own service limits (25 GB application/index size, 20 indices, 3 queries per second,
      10 team members) separate from the paid plans.
    docs: https://docsearch.algolia.com/
    repo: https://github.com/algolia/docsearch
    flavors:
      - platform: React
        package: '@docsearch/react'
        registry: npm
        version: 5.0.4
        published: '2026-08-24'
      - platform: Sphinx
        repo: https://github.com/algolia/sphinx-docsearch
    hosted: true
  - name: Merchandising Studio
    kind: hosted-console
    description: >-
      Algolia-hosted visual tool for curating, pinning, and boosting search results. Not embeddable - listed here
      because it is the no-code surface over the same Rules and Collections objects the Search API exposes.
    docs: https://www.algolia.com/products/merchandising-studio/
    hosted: true
    backing_api: Algolia Search API rules operations (saveRule, saveRules, searchRules, deleteRule)
  - name: Agent Studio
    kind: hosted-console-and-runtime
    description: >-
      Algolia's agent builder and runtime. Has its own 42-operation REST contract, client-side tools, and an
      embeddable conversational surface.
    docs: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/algolia-ai/agent-studio
    openapi: openapi/algolia-agent-studio-api-openapi.yml
    hosted: true
distribution_note: >-
  All component families are distributed through npm rather than a pinned CDN bundle, so every version above was
  read from registry.npmjs.org metadata. Algolia also serves unpinned jsDelivr builds in its documentation
  examples; those float to latest and a consumer cannot tell from the URL which version they are loading.