[[browser-builds]]
== Browser Builds

We also provide builds of the elasticsearch.js client for use in the browser. These versions of the client are currently ***experimental***. We test these builds using https://saucelabs.com/u/elasticsearch-js[saucelabs] in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 10, and 11.

While there is https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-js/issues/96#issuecomment-42617480[a way to get it working in IE 9], the browser severly limits what you can do with cross-domain requests. Because of these limits, many of the API calls and other functionality do not work.

=== Bower
If you use bower to manage your dependencies, then just run:

[source,shell]
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bower install elasticsearch
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=== Download
 * v2.1.4: https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-js/elasticsearch-js-2.1.4.zip[zip], https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-js/elasticsearch-js-2.1.4.tar.gz[tar.gz]


=== Angular Build
  * use the file named `elasticsearch.angular.js` or `elasticsearch.angular.min.js`
  * Registers the elasticsearch object as a factory `esFactory`
  * Uses Angular's `$http` service
  * Returns promises using Angular's `$q` service to properly trigger digest cycles within Angular

.Create a client instance and register it as a service
[source,js]
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module.service('es', function (esFactory) {
  return esFactory({
    host: 'localhost:9200',
    // ...
  });
});
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=== jQuery Build
  * use the file named `elasticsearch.jquery.js` or `elasticsearch.jquery.min.js`
  * Uses jQuery's `.ajax()` functionality
  * Returns jQuery "promises"
  * Registers the module at `jQuery.es`

.Create a client with the jQuery build
[source,js]
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var client = new $.es.Client({
  hosts: 'localhost:9200'
});
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