From 78279f9acb282947e3fb4e5e470995c95e154bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lunnnnnn <cl5515@nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 13:24:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] simple search backend

---
 back-end/src/routes/search.mjs | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 back-end/src/routes/search.mjs

diff --git a/back-end/src/routes/search.mjs b/back-end/src/routes/search.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7679f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/back-end/src/routes/search.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+
+import Event from '../models/Event.mjs'; 
+
+const handleSearch = async (query) => {
+  try {
+    // Use regex to perform case-insensitive search on 'name' and 'location'
+    const results = await Event.find({
+      $or: [
+        { name: { $regex: query, $options: 'i' } },
+        { location: { $regex: query, $options: 'i' } },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    return results;
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error(error);
+    throw new Error('Error while searching for events');
+  }
+};
+
+export default handleSearch;