Use the APIs to Build a Search UI

Build a Search UI Coveo Relevance Cloud Developer Product Documentation
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Search integrations with Coveo typically rely on the Coveo JavaScript Search Framework. This open-source, component-based framework allows developers to easily customize and deploy feature-rich, client-side search interfaces in any web page, site, or application. Coveo product integrations such as Coveo for Salesforce, Coveo for Sitecore, and Coveo for ServiceNow all rely heavily on the JavaScript Search Framework.

If, for some legitimate reason, you can’t use the Coveo JavaScript Search Framework in your custom search integration with Coveo, you must ensure that your own search interface implementation uses the Search API and Usage Analytics Write API services correctly (i.e., in a similar fashion to what the Coveo JavaScript Search Framework does). Otherwise, Coveo Usage Analytics (Coveo UA) reports may become inconsistent/incoherent across your Coveo organization, the Coveo Machine Learning (Coveo ML) service may not be able to learn and function properly, and the overall end-user experience may be unsatisfactory.

The articles in this section provide guidelines for properly implementing your own search interface, assuming that you can’t use the Coveo JavaScript Search Framework in your custom search integration with Coveo.

These articles contain examples of search queries where the POST endpoint is used instead of the GET one, contrary to convention. We do so entirely for readability purposes, as the POST endpoint enables users to send a body parameter containing the required properties. If GET was used, those properties would have to be sent as distinct query parameters, which would make for very clumsy documentation.