FilterSuggest

A react component for achieving search-as-you-type functionality on a list of option items. The actual sorting & filtering of items is left up to you, making it easy to combine data from multiple sources (synchronous & asynchronous).

Implemented using downshift and material-components-web-react.

• Demo
• Installation
• Examples
  • Sync
  • Async
• Props
• Styles

Demo

https://dan-kwiat.github.io/filter-suggest

Installation

With Yarn:

yarn add filter-suggest

Or npm:

npm install --save filter-suggest

You'll need to have the peer dependencies installed too:

{
  "prop-types": "15.x",
  "react": "16.x"
},

Examples

Sync

A basic synchronous example using match-sorter to sort items:

import React, { useState } from 'react'
import FilterSuggest from 'filter-suggest'
import 'filter-suggest/es/index.css'
import matchSorter from 'match-sorter'
 
const ITEMS = [
  {
    id: `movie-1`,
    icon: null,
    primary: 'movie:The Big Short',
    secondary: 'Filter by movie',
  },
  // add more items here
]
 
const Demo = () => {
  const [inputValue, setInputValue] = useState('')
  const sortedItems = inputValue ? matchSorter(
    ITEMS,
    inputValue,
    { keys: ['primary'] }
  ) : []
  return (
    <FilterSuggest
      inputValue={inputValue}
      label='Start typing...'
      onInputValueChange={setInputValue}
      onSelect={item => {
        // deal with selected item here
      }}
      items={sortedItems}
    />
  )
}

See the demo source code for a more comprehensive synchronous example.

Async

A basic asynchronous example using a dummy GraphQL endpoint to fetch sorted items:

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import debounce from 'lodash.debounce'
import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import { Query } from 'react-apollo'
import FilterSuggest from 'filter-suggest'
import 'filter-suggest/es/index.css'
 
const DEBOUNCE_TIME = 100
const applyDebounced = debounce((f, x) => f(x), DEBOUNCE_TIME)
 
const QUERY = gql`
  query GET_ITEMS(
    $search: String!
  ) {
    getItems(
      search: $search
    ) {
      id
      primary
      secondary
    }
  }
`
 
class AsyncDemo extends Component {
  state = {
    inputValue: '',
    variables: {
      search: '',
    }
  }
  setInputValue = inputValue => {
    this.setState({ inputValue })
  }
  setVariables = variables => {
    this.setState({ variables })
  }
  onInputValueChange = value => {
    this.setInputValue(value)
    applyDebounced(this.setVariables, { search: value })
  }
  render() {
    const { inputValue, variables } = this.state
    return (
      <Query query={QUERY} variables={variables}>
        {({ data, loading, error }) => {
          return (
            <FilterSuggest
              inputValue={inputValue}
              label='Search async'
              loading={loading}
              onInputValueChange={this.onInputValueChange}
              onSelect={item => {
                // handle selected item
              }}
              items={inputValue && data ? data.getItems : []}
            />
          )
        }}
      </Query>
    )
  }
}

For a seamless search-as-you-type experience, results should be returned very quickly (say of the order 100ms). You might want to look at Elasticsearch completion suggester or PostgreSQL trigram indices.

See charity-base-search for a real-world asynchronous example.

Props

FilterSuggest accepts the following props:

FilterSuggest.propTypes = {
  // Optional class applied to the parent div
  className: PropTypes.string,
  // Error message to render instead of dropdown
  errorMessage: PropTypes.string,
  // The current value of the input (you must handle the state yourself)
  inputValue: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  // An array of items to render in the dropdown
  items: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.shape({
    // A unique item id
    id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
    // An optional icon to render on the left
    icon: PropTypes.element,
    // The main text to display on the item
    primary: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
    // Secondary text to display below the main text (useful for giving prompts)
    secondary: PropTypes.string,
    // You may want to provide additional item props here (for use in the onSelect callback)
  })).isRequired,
  // The input label
  label: PropTypes.string,
  // Optional icon element to prefix the input
  leadingIcon: PropTypes.element,
  // Whether or not the items are loading
  loading: PropTypes.bool,
  // Maximum number of items to render in dropdown list
  maxSuggestions: PropTypes.number,
  // Optional class applied to the dropdown menu
  menuClassName: PropTypes.string,
  // Blur event handler
  onBlur: PropTypes.func,
  // Focus event handler
  onFocus: PropTypes.func,
  // A callback fired whenever an input value change is detected
  onInputValueChange: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  // A callback fired whenever an item is selected
  onSelect: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  // Whether or not to render the outlined variant of text field
  outlined: PropTypes.bool,
  // Optional class applied to the input element's parent
  textFieldClassName: PropTypes.string,
}
FilterSuggest.defaultProps = {
  label: 'Start typing...',
  maxSuggestions: 12,
}

Styles

With CSS:

import 'filter-suggest/es/index.css'

With Sass:

import 'filter-suggest/es/index.scss'

The colour theme can be customised using the following Sass mixin:

$mdc-theme-primary: #00ff00;

For further customisation see MDC Web's mixins for the text field and list.

You may also supply textFieldClassName and menuClassName props which will be applied to the appropriate components.