Guides / Building Search UI / Ecommerce ui template

Each UI template comes with a set of functional blocks (“components”) and a demo site consisting of pages created with those components. For example, the Ecommerce UI template’s demo site has:

These pre-packaged components are designed to be as independent as possible, so you can choose the ones you’re interested in. They’re typically composed of InstantSearch Widgets and/or Autocomplete plugins and non-Algolia components.

The Ecommerce UI template components are fully responsive, and all components are optimized to render well on both mobile and desktop devices.

Data sources# A

The ecommerce experience requires a sources of entity objects. In this example, there are two entity objects: products and query suggestions.

Component Description
Product repository Repository providing access to products information.
Suggestion repository Repository providing access to query suggestions and queries history.

Home page# A

Component Description
Showcase Organizes media-rich records into easily scannable rows

Product listing page# A

Display#

Component Description
Display products Display multiple products using different layouts (as a grid or list) with infinite scrolling
Product card Map your record structure so that you can display a product card
No results Display different options to users when there are no results for a specific search

Search#

Component Description
Autocomplete Display search autocomplete view with search history and query suggestions
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