GitHub - discourse/discourse-algolia: A plugin for indexing and searching your Discourse with Algolia · GitHub is doing this for example, I recommend you have a look at the code, especially top of plugin.rb.
Also a small tip, in programming things always seem hard when you feel like you don’t know the effects of your actions, it’s important to know what’s going on, I recommend running this command in your console: window.requirejs.entries it might help you understand a few things.