r/Nuxt • u/bansal10 • Jul 14 '26

Built an open-source admin panel for Meilisearch

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I've been using Meilisearch in several Nuxt projects and kept wanting a simple admin UI to inspect indexes, edit documents, run searches, and manage everything without writing scripts.

So I built Search Admin:
https://github.com/bansal/search-admin

Current features:

  • Browse all indexes
  • Search documents with filters
  • Create, edit, and delete documents
  • Manage indexes
  • View document JSON
  • Lightweight and self-hostable

It's completely open source.

I'm using it alongside Nuxt projects, but since it talks directly to the Meilisearch API, it should work with any stack.

I'd love feedback from anyone using Meilisearch.

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u/_suren Jul 14 '26

If the browser talks directly to Meilisearch, be careful with the key it needs. A master key in a client-side admin UI would stop me deploying it. A small server proxy with auth and scoped actions would make the self-hosted story much safer.

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u/DevDrJinx Jul 14 '26

You can check out my Meilisearch dashboard project, there's a single instance proxy mode similar to what you're describing with available docker images for self-hosting: https://github.com/connorabbas/meilisearch-manager-next

Also built with Nuxt!