Semantic Search Engine for Docs Using Upstash

In this blog post, readers are guided through the creation of a semantic search engine for any GitHub repository using Upstash Vector, a vector database designed to facilitate semantic search capabilities. Semantic search goes beyond simple keyword matching by using embeddings to understand the relationships between words, allowing for more nuanced search results, such as returning related terms like "football" when searching for "soccer." The project is implemented using Next.js and JavaScript, with essential tools including the GitHub API, Langchain, OpenAI Embeddings, and Upstash Vector. Readers are provided with a step-by-step tutorial covering the setup of a Next.js application, the creation of environment variables, and the implementation of user interfaces and key features such as parsing repositories, adding documents to the vector database, and handling search queries. The blog also details how to set up API endpoints to upsert document chunks and perform similarity searches, ultimately enabling the development of a functional semantic search engine that can dynamically index and query GitHub repositories.