Setup & Installation
What This Skill Does
Azure AI Search SDK for TypeScript (@azure/search-documents) lets you create and manage search indexes, upload documents, and run full-text, vector, hybrid, and semantic searches against Azure AI Search. It also supports autocomplete, faceted navigation, and document-level security filters.
Combining vector, keyword, and semantic ranking in a single query would require stitching together multiple services manually; this SDK handles all three search modes through one consistent API against a managed Azure service.
When to use it
- Building a product catalog search with category filters and faceted navigation
- Adding vector similarity search to a knowledge base using embeddings
- Running hybrid text-plus-vector queries over a document corpus
- Setting up autocomplete and search suggestions for an e-commerce search bar
- Managing index schemas and batch-uploading documents from a TypeScript backend