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I want to search the "displayName" in documents nested within a collection, or more specifically the data is as follows:

users -> $idstring -> displayName

Ive come up with the following using AngularFire but its still not quite working for me.. I need to check displayName against the first 3 chars of val (user entered) and bring back results that start with that, I need a kind of LIKE search operation to occur, is this possible with firestore.. so far its just returning almost everything in my users collection

this.itemsCollection = this.aft.collection<iUser>('users', ref => ref.orderBy("displayName").startAt(val))
Rosário Pereira Fernandes
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As mentioned on the Cloud Firestore Documentation:

Cloud Firestore doesn't support native indexing or search for text fields in documents. Additionally, downloading an entire collection to search for fields client-side isn't practical.

And to enable full text search of your data, you'd need to use a third-party search service like Algolia or ElasticSearch.

The documentation actually provides a guide on how to integrate Algolia with Firebase.

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    Yeah I was hoping to avoid introducing another 3rd party service into my app.. I guess Ill filter the users by geographic location then pull down that entire list or something manageable like that – Kravitz Jan 16 '18 at 18:35
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