Fast Autocomplete & Typeahead Library – autoComplete.js

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Description:

A dynamic, blazing-fast,  dependency-free,  and easy-to-use autocomplete & typeahead JavaScript library for modern web development.

Key features:

• Auto displays the suggestion list while typing.
• Fuzzy search is supported.
• Highlights matched results.
• Custom placeholder.
• Limits the maximum number of results to display.

How to use it:

Install and import the autoComplete.js.

import "./autoComplete.js";

Define the data.

const data = {
      src: data,
      key: ["CSS", "SCRIPT", "COM"]
}

Create an input field or textfield with a unique ID ‘autoComplete’.

<input id="autoComplete" type="text">

Attach the autoComplete.js to the input field and done.

new autoComplete({

    // Array, Function, Async
    data: myData,

    // events or conditions
    trigger: {
      events: ["input"],
      condition: queryValue.length > this.threshold && queryValue !== " "
    }

    // object with 1 method manipulate: Function with (query) argument
    query: {},

    // sort rendered results ascendingly | (Optional)
    sort: (a, b) => {                    
        if (a.match < b.match) return -1;
        if (a.match > b.match) return 1;
        return 0;
    },

    // min character length
    threshold: 0,

    // input field selector
    selector: "#autoComplete"

    // placeholder
    placeHolder: "Type Here ...",

    // minimum duration after typing idle state for engine to kick in
    debounce: 0, 

    // strict or loose
    searchEngine: "strict",

    // rendered results list object
    resultsList: {  
      container: source => {
        resultsListID = "language_List";
        return resultsListID;
      },
      destination: document.querySelector("#autoComplete"),
      position: "afterend"
    },

    // Rendered result item   
    resultItem: (data, source) => { 
      return `${data.match}`;
    },

    // maximum number of results to display
    maxResults: 5,

    // action script on noResults found
    noResults: function(){},

    // highlights results
    highlight: false,

    // triggered after selection
    onSelection: value => { 
      document.querySelector(".selection").innerHTML = value.id;
    }
    
});

Changelog:

v7.2.0 (10/14/2020)

• Resolves cursor relocation on “keyUp” issue

v7.2.0 (03/24/2020)

• Threshold Limit Fix & Added Diacritics Handling

v7.2.0 (11/10/2019)

• Added support to textarea input field

v7.1.3 (11/03/2019)

• Enhanced mouse selection

v7.1.2 (10/30/2019)

• Fixed error behavior occurs when searching (Empty, False, Null) record

v7.1.1 (10/21/2019)

• resList now is fully created in DocumentFragment before rendering for better performance
• config parameters restructure
• Reduced autoComplete.js weight

v7.1.0 (10/07/2019)

• New improved Navigation logic
• Enhanced resList.navigation API data feedback
• Major code Refactor & Optimizations

v7.0.3 (09/26/2019)

• Duplicate values selection bugfix

v7.0.2 (09/26/2019)

• Data Promise bug fix
• Remote API duplicate calls fix
• trigger.condition enhancement
• Code Refactor for faster performance and lighter weight

v7.0.0 (09/17/2019)

• api multiple calls issue fix

v7.0.0 (09/01/2019)

• New API for results list navigation resultsList.navigation
• New API for autoComplete.js engine trigger.event
• New API for autoComplete.js engine trigger.condition
• Added Support to Shadow DOM expanding customizability
• Node Element Support for Input Selector
• Empty record issue fix
• customEngine API [Removed]
• customEngine merged with searchEngine API key for more convenience [Changed]
• Code Optimizations

v6.0.0 (06/15/2019)

• CustomEvent & Closest method IE compatibility
• Query interception
• Simplified resultsList & resultItem
• EventEmitter fires on clearing input field
• EventEmitter now has input method for row user’s input
• EventEmitter now has query method for intercepted user’s input

v5.3.0 (06/05/2019)

• Get results from eventEmitter without rendering list through resultsList.render API
• EventEmitter name type changed to autoComplete [Changed]

v5.2.0 (06/02/2019)

• Added Event Emitter on noResults event

v5.1.1 (05/31/2019)

• UpperCase query bug fix
• Added noResults open API for No Results
• HTML elements ContentEditable Input Support

v5.0.0 (05/07/2019)

• Large datasets handling
• API Data fetching & Dynamic Data reloading
• Debouncing API Calls
• Custom resultsList & resultItem Elements
• Bug fixes
• Code Clean Up

v4.0.0 (03/01/2019)

• Multiple searchable keys for data src
• Rendered results in original case
• Improved Development Environment
• IE 11 fix
• Improved returned data object onSelection
• Sort rendered results API
• Enhanced results navigation adding ArrowRight key for selection
• Added event emitter on input field type name type returns
• Code Clean Up

v3.2.2 (02/06/2019)

• Fixed bug with hightlight API default value during strict engine mode
• Fixed bug with resultsList API default value when not configured

v3.2.1 (01/09/2018)

• Isolated resultsList value for multiple instances

v2.1.0 (01/06/2018)

• Updated

v2.0.0 (12/23/2018)

• Updated options.

v1.5.4 (12/21/2018)

• Gzipped options for both builds & style issue fixed.

v1.5.3 (12/20/2018)

• Added “threshold” option, code optimizations

v1.5.2 (12/19/2018)

• Fixed onSelection null action issue & Optimized the code.

v1.4.1 (12/11/2018)

• Updated Presentation Layer.
• Code Cleanup.

v1.4.0 (12/09/2018)

• Added searchEngine mode switcher to presentation layer for better demonstration.
• Optimized “autoComplete.js”, changed input style in “autoComplete.css” sheet and updated build dependencies.

v1.3.1 (12/03/2018)

• Update styles

v1.3.0 (12/02/2018)

• Added new “datasrc” as a function returns “Array”.

v1.2.1 (11/27/2018)

• Added maximum Placeholder text length feature.

v1.2.0 (11/26/2018)

• Redesigned the entire search engine for better experience and results, added support for multi-keywords search.

v1.1.0 (11/25/2018)

• Refactored & Optimized the whole library for lighter weight and better performance.

11/23/2018

• Optimization Reduced the library weight by 1KB.