Build a Searchable Catalog with Filters, Facets, and Semantic Search

A search box is easy. A searchable catalog that keeps being useful after the first query is the harder part. That is the problem this demo takes on. It uses a small board-game catalog, but the shape of the problem is familiar: users type something half-remembered, misspell it, narrow by constraints, keep browsing, open a result, then want "more like this" without starting over. If your product has that flow, most of the work is not the UI polish. It is getting the search behavior right without t