I tried meilisearch for the first time the other day. It worked great and it was a breeze getting it up 'n' running following the instructions in the laravel documentation

I had some trouble, however, figuring out how to sort the results from meilisearch.

To do this, you first have to tell meilisearch which index and which fields you want to sort. Say our index is called "users" and the fields we want to sort is "name" and "occupation" Do that using this curl request:

$ curl -X POST 'http://[ip]:7700/indexes/users/settings/sortable-attributes' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary '[ "name", "occupation" ]' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer [token]'

You should get a response similar to this:

{
    "uid":128,
    "indexUid":"users",
    "status":"enqueued",
    "type":"settingsUpdate",
    "enqueuedAt":"2022-02-23T18:05:03.873095468Z"
}

Now, sort your results using scout:

$users = User::search("Isak Berglind", function ($meilisearch, $query, $options) {
    $options['sort'] = ['name:asc'];

    return $meilisearch->search($query, $options);
})->paginate(20);

Thats it!

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