--- title: Full-Text Search with Firebase Data Connect | daily.dev description: Firebase Data Connect now supports full-text search via the @searchable directive on GraphQL schema fields. Annotating string fields with @searchable indexes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/full-text-search-with-firebase-data-connect-paed7lojt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Full-Text Search with Firebase Data Connect | daily.dev og:description: Firebase Data Connect now supports full-text search via the @searchable directive on GraphQL schema fields. Annotating string fields with @searchable indexes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/full-text-search-with-firebase-data-connect-paed7lojt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PaEd7loJT.png og:image:alt: Full-Text Search with Firebase Data Connect og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Full-Text Search with Firebase Data Connect **[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Firebase Data Connect now supports full-text search via the @searchable directive on GraphQL schema fields. Annotating string fields with @searchable indexes them for search, enabling queries across multiple columns simultaneously. The feature supports language configuration (defaulting to English) and a relevanceThreshold filter to surface only the most pertinent results. Under the hood it leverages PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities through a streamlined GraphQL interface. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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