ember-hypersearch 💨

Hyperspeed real-time search with caching

Existing addons that implement real-time typeahead search assume that your app already has all the data. ember-hypersearch lets you query an endpoint directly, and caches results locally for better performance when the same query is repeated.

If you provide the addon with data, it will use that directly and does fuzzy search to find the item.

Compatibility

This addon is tested to work with Ember versions 1.13.x and up. For versions < 2.0, you will need to install the excellent ember-get-helper addon as well.

Because native inputs are used in this addon, you will need to provide your own template in order to use it on pre-Glimmer versions of Ember (basically anything below 1.13.x). As this makes for poor testing ergonomics, we do not explicitly test for backwards compatibility please report any issues you might encounter to our issue tracker.

Usage

First, install the addon:

$ ember install ember-hypersearch

Then include the hyper-search component in a template of your choice:

{{hyper-search
    endpoint="/api/v1/users"
    resultKey="email"
    placeholder="Search by email"
    selectResult=(action "selectResult")
    handleResults=(action "handleResults")
}}

The component can also be used in block form, if you pass it a template:

{{#hyper-search
    endpoint="/api/v1/users"
    resultKey="name"
    selectResult=(action "selectResult") as |hypersearch|}}
 
  <form {{action "commit" on="submit"}}>
    {{one-way-input
        name="query"
        type="text"
        placeholder="Search for...
        update=(action "search" target=hypersearch)
    }}
    <ul>
      {{#each hypersearch.results as |result|}}
        <li>
          <span {{action (action "selectResult") result on="click"}}>
            {{get result hypersearch.resultKey}}
          </span>
        </li>
      {{/each}}
    </ul>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
{{/hyper-search}}

Note that this addon is designed to work with native inputs, so you will not need to use the {{input}} helper.

Component API

minQueryLength: {Number}

Default: 3

The minimum length for a query before it fetches and returns results.

debounceRate: {Number}

Default: 0

If > 0, requests to your endpoint will be debounced by this number of milliseconds to reduce the load on your API.

endpoint: {String}

Default: null

The URL for your endpoint. By default, hyper-search will do a simple GET request with q as a query parameter.

If your endpoint requires a different setup, you should reopen/extend the component and override the request method. For example:

import HyperSearch from 'ember-hypersearch';
 
export default HyperSearch.reopen({
  request(query) {
    // Your AJAX request here
    // Must return a `Promise`
  }
});

resultKey: {String}

Default: null

Results of the current query are displayed in a ul element below the input. If your result is an array of objects, you can optionally specify a key to display in the list of results.

placeholder: {String}

Default: null

An optional placeholder for the hypersearch input.

selectResult: {Function|String}

Default: null

If a closure action / action name is passed to the component, the action will receive the selected result.

handleResults: {Function|String}

Default: null

If a closure action / action name is passed to the component, the action will receive the results of the query.

loadingHandler: {Function|String}

Default: null

A closure action / action name that will receive a boolean which states if results are being loaded/fetched.

Roadmap

Future versions will allow you to persist results locally via localStorage or some other storage method. For APIs with data that doesn't change often (e.g. addresses), this will allow for improved UX (search queries will appear to be instantaneous) and reduced load on the endpoint.

Installation

• git clone this repository
• npm install
• bower install

Running

• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build

For more information on using ember-cli, visit http://www.ember-cli.com/.