I wrote down everything I know about implementing Meilisearch on a a Django site for the #revsys blog: https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/how-to-add-blazing-fast-search-to-your-django-site-with-meilisearch/
The TL;DR is that there are a lot of little steps, but once you have completed those steps, your search is just... done. And it works. And you mostly don't have to do anything else with it.
Happy coding and searching!
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