Using this project

Basic setup

Clone the repo
Go into the TypeAhead folder and do yarn && yarn build
Go into Sesame folder and do yarn there.
Navigate into localhost:3000 and use the input document there.

Testing

The Sesame folder is just a basic create-react-app project without any logic. It's only for quick demo purposes. As such no tests are written for it.

The TypeAhead part of this repo though has tests that can be run by doing yarn test

How to use the component outside of this project

The TypeAhead package exports the <TypeAhead /> component that can be dropped in any form like an normal input component. A user can either select one of the suggestions or add their own text.

Technologies

I used TypeScript, React, Jest, React-testing-library and used yarn for the most part as the package manager.

General assumptions / liberties taken

I could have gone with many libraries both for fuzzy search and for styling. I decided to not do that and keep the size of the module small. I used JavaScript for a very basic implementation of fuzzy search. It's clearly not as sophisticated as it doesn't create scores on which result is more valid that others. Also in very big sets it will obviously won't perform as good.