React Autosuggest

WAI-ARIA compliant React autosuggest component.

Live Examples

• Basic example
  
• Custom renderer
  
• Multiple sections
• 2 or more characters

Installation

npm install react-autosuggest --save

Basic Usage

import Autosuggest from 'react-autosuggest';

let suburbs = ['Cheltenham', 'Mill Park', 'Mordialloc', 'Nunawading'];

function getSuggestions(input, callback) {
  let regex = new RegExp('^' + input, 'i');

  setTimeout(function() {
    callback(null, suburbs.filter( suburb => regex.test(suburb) ));
  }, 300);
}

<Autosuggest suggestions={getSuggestions} />

Options

• suggestions
• suggestionRenderer
• suggestionValue
• showWhen
• inputAttributes

suggestions (required)

Implement this function to tell Autosuggest which suggestions to display.

function(input, callback) {
  ...
}

• input - Will be the value of the input field

• callback - Should be called once the suggestions are in hand, or error occurs.

  • Success example: callback(null, <suggestions>)
  • Error example: callback(new Error("Couldn't get locations"))

<suggestions> can have one of the following two formats:

• To display a single section with no title: [<suggestion>, <suggestion>, ...]
• To display one or more sections with optional titles: Array of objects with an optional sectionName and a mandatory suggestions keys, e.g.:

    [{
      suggestions: [<suggestion>, <suggestion>]   // This section won't have a title
    }, {
      sectionName: 'Second section',
      suggestions: [<suggestion>, <suggestion>, <suggestion>]
    }]

<suggestion> can have one of the following two formats:

• String, e.g.: 'Mentone'
• Object, e.g.: { suburb: 'Mentone', postcode: '3194' }. This object cannot have a suggestions key. You must implement suggestionRenderer and suggestionValue in this case.

suggestionRenderer (required when suggestions are objects)

This function will be used to render the suggestion. It should return ReactElement or a string.

function(suggestion, input) {
  ...
}

• suggestion - The <suggestion> (string or object)
• input - The value of the input field (e.g.: 'Men'). If user interacts using the Up or Down keys at the moment, it will be the value of the input field prior to those interactions.

For example:

function renderSuggestion(suggestion, input) { // In this example 'suggestion' is a string
  return (
    <span><strong>{suggestion.slice(0, input.length)}</strong>{suggestion.slice(input.length)}</span>
  );
}

<Autosuggest suggestions={getSuggestions}
             suggestionRenderer={renderSuggestion} />

suggestionValue (required when suggestions are objects)

This function will be used to set the value of the input field when suggestion is selected. It has one parameter which is the suggestion object. This function is ignored when suggestions are strings.

For example:

function getSuggestionValue(suggestionObj) {
  return suggestionObj.suburb + ' VIC ' + suggestionObj.postcode;
}

<Autosuggest suggestions={getSuggestions}
             suggestionRenderer={renderSuggestion}
             suggestionValue={getSuggestionValue} />

showWhen (optional)

This function will be used to determine whether to show suggestions or not. It has one parameter which is the value of the input field (e.g.: 'm '). The default is:

function(input) {
  return input.trim().length > 0;
}

For example, to show suggestions only if user typed 2 or more characters, do:

function showWhen(input) {
  return input.trim().length >= 2;
}

<Autosuggest suggestions={getSuggestions}
             showWhen={showWhen} />

inputAttributes (optional)

Hash of attributes to pass to the input field. For example:

let inputAttributes = {
  id: 'locations-autosuggest',
  name: 'locations-autosuggest',
  className: 'my-sweet-locations-autosuggest',
  placeholder: 'Enter locations...',
  value: 'Mordialloc'   // Initial value
};

<label htmlFor="locations-autosuggest">Where</label>
<Autosuggest suggestions={getSuggestions}
             inputAttributes={inputAttributes} />

Styling

The <Autosuggest /> component comes with no styles. You can use the following classes to style it:

• react-autosuggest - Component's wrapper. It includes both the input field and the suggestions list.
• react-autosuggest__suggestions - Suggestions list wrapper
• react-autosuggest__suggestions-section - Suggestions section wrapper (exists only when displaying multiple sections)
• react-autosuggest__suggestions-section-name - Suggestions section name wrapper (exists only when displaying multiple sections and sectionName is specified)
• react-autosuggest__suggestion - Single suggestion wrapper

Example: examples/src/Autosuggest.less

Development

npm start

Now, open http://localhost:3000/examples/dist/index.html

Running Tests

npm test

License

MIT