@appbaseio/searchbox

Searchbox

A lightweight vanilla JS search library with some common utilities.

1. Intro

SearchBox offers a lightweight and performance focused searchbox UI component to query and display results from your ElasticSearch app (aka index) using declarative props.

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2. Installation

npm install --save @appbaseio/searchbox @appbaseio/searchbase

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3. Usage

Standalone

<input type="text" id="git" placeholder="Search movies..." />

import Searchbase from '@appbaseio/searchbase';
import searchbox from '@appbaseio/searchbox';

const instance = new Searchbase({
	index: 'gitxplore-latest-app',
	credentials: 'LsxvulCKp:a500b460-73ff-4882-8d34-9df8064b3b38',
	url: 'https://scalr.api.appbase.io',
	size: 5,
	dataField: [
		'name',
		'description',
		'name.raw',
		'fullname',
		'owner',
		'topics'
	]
});
searchbox('#git', { instance }, [
	{
		templates: {
			suggestion: function(suggestion) {
				return `<p class="is-4">${suggestion.label}</p>`;
			},
			empty: function() {
				return `<div>No Results</div>`;
			},
			loader: function() {
				return `<div>Loader</div>`;
			},
			footer: function({ query, isEmpty }) {
				return `
                    <div style="background: #eaeaea; padding: 10px;">Footer</div>
                `;
			},
			header: function({ query, isEmpty }) {
				return `
                    <div style="background: #efefef; padding: 10px;">
                        Hello From Header
                    </div>
                `;
			}
		}
	}
]);

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4. Look and Feel

Add the following CSS rules to add a default style:

.appbase-autocomplete {
	width: 100%;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-input,
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-hint {
	width: 100%;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-hint {
	color: #999;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-dropdown-menu {
	width: 100%;
	background-color: #fff;
	border: 1px solid #999;
	border-top: none;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-dropdown-menu .aa-suggestion {
	cursor: pointer;
	padding: 5px 4px;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-dropdown-menu .aa-suggestion.aa-cursor {
	background-color: #b2d7ff;
}
.appbase-autocomplete .aa-dropdown-menu .aa-suggestion em {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-style: normal;
}

Here is what the basic example looks like:

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5. Global Options

When initializing an autocomplete, there are a number of global options you can configure.

autoselect – If true, the first rendered suggestion in the dropdown will automatically have the cursor class, and pressing <ENTER> will select it.
autoselectOnBlur – If true, when the input is blurred, the first rendered suggestion in the dropdown will automatically have the cursor class, and pressing <ENTER> will select it. This option should be used on mobile, see #113.
tabAutocomplete – If true, pressing tab will select the first rendered suggestion in the dropdown. Defaults to true.
hint – If false, the autocomplete will not show a hint. Defaults to true.
debug – If true, the autocomplete will not close on blur. Defaults to false.
clearOnSelected – If true, the autocomplete will empty the search box when a suggestion is selected. This is useful if you want to use this as a way to input tags using the selected event.
openOnFocus – If true, the dropdown menu will open when the input is focused. Defaults to false.
appendTo – If set with a DOM selector, doesn't wrap the input and appends the wrapper and dropdown menu to the first DOM element matching the selector. It automatically positions the wrapper under the input, and sets it to the same width as the input. Can't be used with hint: true, because hint requires the wrapper around the input.
dropdownMenuContainer – If set with a DOM selector, it overrides the container of the dropdown menu.
templates – An optional hash overriding the default templates.
- dropdownMenu – the dropdown menu template. The template should include all dataset placeholders.
- header – the header to prepend to the dropdown menu
- footer – the footer to append to the dropdown menu
- render – the template use to dispaly custom suggestions with a different container (div element) or different layout. The templating function is called with a context containing the suggestions, promotedData, rawData, resultStats & a function called getItemProps which is used to add data attributes for internal functioning of events and suggestion.
- loader – the template to display when the datasets is loading results. The templating function is called with a context containing the underlying query.
- empty – the template to display when none of the datasets are returning results. The templating function is called with a context containing the underlying query.
cssClasses – An optional hash overriding the default css classes.
- root – the root classes. Defaults to appbase-autocomplete.
- prefix – the CSS class prefix of all nested elements. Defaults to aa.
- noPrefix - set this to true if you wish to not use any prefix. Without this option, all nested elements classes will have a leading dash. Defaults to false.
- dropdownMenu – the dropdown menu CSS class. Defaults to dropdown-menu.
- input – the input CSS class. Defaults to input.
- hint – the hint CSS class. Defaults to hint.
- suggestions – the suggestions list CSS class. Defaults to suggestions.
- suggestion – the suggestion wrapper CSS class. Defaults to suggestion.
- cursor – the cursor CSS class. Defaults to cursor.
- dataset – the dataset CSS class. Defaults to dataset.
- empty – the empty CSS class. Defaults to empty.
- loader – the loader CSS class. Defaults to loader.
keyboardShortcuts - Array of shortcut that will focus the input. For example if you want to bind s and / you can specify: keyboardShortcuts: ['s', '/']
minLength – The minimum character length needed before suggestions start getting rendered. Defaults to 1.
autoWidth – This option allow you to control the width of autocomplete wrapper. When false the autocomplete wrapper will not have the width style attribute and you are be able to put your specific width property in your css to control the wrapper. Default value is true.

One scenario for use this option. e.g. You have a max-width css attribute in your autocomplete-dropdown-menu and you need to width grows until fill the max-width. In this scenario you put a width: auto in your autocomplete wrapper css class and the max-width in your autocomplete dropdown class and all done.

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6. Datasets

An autocomplete is composed of one or more datasets. When an end-user modifies the value of the underlying input, each dataset will attempt to render suggestions for the new value.

Datasets can be configured using the following options.

source – The backing data source for suggestions. Expected to be a function with the signature (query, cb). It is expected that the function will compute the suggestion set (i.e. an array of JavaScript objects) for query and then invoke cb with said set. cb can be invoked synchronously or asynchronously.
name – The name of the dataset. This will be appended to tt-dataset- to form the class name of the containing DOM element. Must only consist of underscores, dashes, letters (a-z), and numbers. Defaults to a random number.
displayKey – For a given suggestion object, determines the string representation of it. This will be used when setting the value of the input control after a suggestion is selected. Can be either a key string or a function that transforms a suggestion object into a string. Defaults to value. Example function usage: displayKey: function(suggestion) { return suggestion.nickname || suggestion.firstName }
templates – A hash of templates to be used when rendering the dataset. Note a precompiled template is a function that takes a JavaScript object as its first argument and returns a HTML string.
- empty – Rendered when 0 suggestions are available for the given query. Can be either a HTML string or a precompiled template. The templating function is called with a context containing query, isEmpty, and any optional arguments that may have been forwarded by the source: function emptyTemplate({ query, isEmpty }, [forwarded args]).
- footer – Rendered at the bottom of the dataset. Can be either a HTML string or a precompiled template. The templating function is called with a context containing query, isEmpty, and any optional arguments that may have been forwarded by the source: function footerTemplate({ query, isEmpty }, [forwarded args]).
- header – Rendered at the top of the dataset. Can be either a HTML string or a precompiled template. The templating function is called with a context containing query, isEmpty, and any optional arguments that may have been forwarded by the source: function headerTemplate({ query, isEmpty }, [forwarded args]).
- suggestion – Used to render a single suggestion. The templating function is called with the suggestion, and any optional arguments that may have been forwarded by the source: function suggestionTemplate(suggestion, [forwarded args]). Defaults to the value of displayKey wrapped in a p tag i.e. <p>{{value}}</p>.
debounce – If set, will postpone the source execution until after debounce milliseconds have elapsed since the last time it was invoked.

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7. Events

The autocomplete component triggers the following custom events.

autocomplete:opened – Triggered when the dropdown menu of the autocomplete is opened.
autocomplete:shown – Triggered when the dropdown menu of the autocomplete is shown (opened and non-empty).
autocomplete:empty – Triggered when all datasets are empty.
autocomplete:closed – Triggered when the dropdown menu of the autocomplete is closed.
autocomplete:updated – Triggered when a dataset is rendered.
autocomplete:cursorchanged – Triggered when the dropdown menu cursor is moved to a different suggestion. The event handler will be invoked with 3 arguments: the jQuery event object, the suggestion object, and the name of the dataset the suggestion belongs to.
autocomplete:selected – Triggered when a suggestion from the dropdown menu is selected. The event handler will be invoked with the following arguments: the jQuery event object, the suggestion object, the name of the dataset the suggestion belongs to and a context object. The context contains a .selectionMethod key that can be either click, enterKey, tabKey or blur, depending how the suggestion was selected.
autocomplete:cursorremoved – Triggered when the cursor leaves the selections or its current index is lower than 0
autocomplete:autocompleted – Triggered when the query is autocompleted. Autocompleted means the query was changed to the hint. The event handler will be invoked with 3 arguments: the jQuery event object, the suggestion object, and the name of the dataset the suggestion belongs to.
autocomplete:redrawn – Triggered when appendTo is used and the wrapper is resized/repositionned.

All custom events are triggered on the element initialized as the autocomplete.

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8. Contributing & releasing

see CONTRIBUTING.md

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9. Other Projects You Might Like

reactivesearch React, React Native and Vue UI components for building data-driven apps with Elasticsearch.
arc API Gateway for ElasticSearch (Out of the box Security, Rate Limit Features, Record Analytics and Request Logs).
searchbox Similar to searchbox we offer a lightweight and performance focused searchbox UI libraries for React and Vue.
- React - (~30kB Minified + Gzipped)
- Vue - (~22kB Minified + Gzipped)
dejavu allows viewing raw data within an appbase.io (or Elasticsearch) app. Soon to be released feature: An ability to import custom data from CSV and JSON files, along with a guided walkthrough on applying data mappings.
mirage ReactiveSearch components can be extended using custom Elasticsearch queries. For those new to Elasticsearch, Mirage provides an intuitive GUI for composing queries.
ReactiveMaps is a similar project to Reactive Search that allows building realtime maps easily.
appbase-js While building search UIs is dandy with Reactive Search, you might also need to add some input forms. appbase-js comes in handy there.

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10. Credits

This library has originally been forked from Algolia's autocomplete.js library and which has been forked from Twitter's typeahead.js library.

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