lemmingapex/suggestions

A typeahead component for inputs

Suggestions

A typeahead component for inputs

Demo

Usage

Quick start

<script src='suggestions.js'></script>

<script>
  var input = document.querySelector('input');
  var data = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'qux'];
  new Suggestions(input, data);
</script>

Usage with Browserify

var Suggestions = require('suggestions');

var input = document.querySelector('input');
var data = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'qux'];
new Suggestions(input, data);

Suggestions with options

var Suggestions = require('suggestions');

var input = document.querySelector('input');

var data = [{
  name: 'Roy Eldridge',
  year: 1911
}, {
  name: 'Roy Hargrove',
  year: 1969
}, {
  name: 'Tim Hagans',
  year: 1954
}, {
  name: 'Tom Harrell',
  year: 1946
}, {
  name: 'Freddie Hubbard',
  year: 1938
}, {
  name: 'Nicholas Payton',
  year: 1973
}, {
  name: 'Miles Davis',
  year: 1926
}, {
  name: 'Dizzy Gillespie',
  year: 1917
}, {
  name: 'Rex Stewart',
  year: 1907
}];

var typeahead = new Suggestions(input, data, {
  minLength: 3, // Number of characters typed into an input to trigger suggestions.
  limit: 3 //  Max number of results to display. 
});

typeahead.getItemValue = function(item) {
  return item.name
};

input.addEventListener('change', function() {
  console.log(typeahead.selected); // Current selected item.
});

API

Running locally

npm install && npm start

npm start will run a server on port 9966. Visit http://localhost:9966/demo/ to view the example.

Testing

npm run test

Credit

This project is adapted from https://github.com/marcojetson/type-ahead.js