title: How to develop a web UI for Apache Solr
body: <p>I'm trying to develop a simple web-based search prototype on a list of documents. I've learnt about <code>Apache Solr</code> recently. Its simple REST APIs looks promising. However, I couldn't find any tutorial on how to develop an easy-to-use Web UI client on top of that. I also had problems indexing file types of <code>PDF</code>, <code>XLS</code>, and other types.</p>
  
  <p>I'm new to web development. Is there any open-source javascript/HTML client on how to use Apache Solr as a starting point? Maybe how to implement <code>autocomplete</code> features, index files, get search results, etc. Any hints would be useful for a starter.</p>