Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Getting ready

To start with, let's install the Elasticsearch server. On macOS, you can do that with Homebrew:

$ brew install elasticsearch

At the time of writing, the latest stable version of Elasticsearch on Homebrew is 6.8.2.

Install django-elasticsearch-dsl in your virtual environment (and include it in requirements/_base.txt):

(env)$ pip install django-elasticsearch-dsl==6.4.1

Note that it is important to install a matching django-elasticsearch-dsl version. Otherwise, you will get errors when trying to connect to the Elasticsearch server or building an index. You can see a version compatibility table at https://github.com/sabricot/django-elasticsearch-dsl.