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android521 · 2017-01-12 05:01:34

autocomplete for js will be great too.

Rustydave | karma 2 | avg karma 0.17 · | 2017-01-11 04:46:11

What about autocomplete for html and css? Always been looking for something like this :)

yuletide666 | karma 10 | avg karma 0.53 · | 2012-03-29 13:34:34

Chrome autocomplete support would be awesome.

WorldMaker | karma 12216 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2023-12-18 12:18:48

You don't need JS for basic autocomplete in 2023, you can use "datalist" in HTML: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...

A lot of basic high value interactions are more directly encoded in HTML today than a lot of developers expect to need JS for. Some other tags to pay attention to: summary/details, progress, meter, input type="color|date|time|datetime|range".

It's an interesting relearning project, sometimes, how much the high level interactivity bits of HTML have changed since, for instance, the jQuery era.

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mootymoots | karma 920 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2009-02-19 19:42:50+00:00

certainly... autocomplete is great

hayksaakian | karma 5338 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2013-05-25 15:56:22

Datalist is really awesome. Autocomplete with no CSS or JS? sounds good to me.

findjashua | karma 689 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2014-09-16 17:04:44+00:00

+10 for bacon.js!!

Edit: While I use it primarily for ajax, skipDuplicates and flatMapLatest are a godsend for building autocomplete

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captn3m0 | karma 9883 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2013-11-25 15:55:00+00:00

Just to hijack this thread: I'm looking for a autocomplete library (like typeahead.js) that works on textareas. Any recommendations?

deanalevitt | karma 303 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2019-02-28 10:19:48+00:00

Agreed. Autocomplete feels important.

codeptualize | karma 1420 | avg karma 3.51 · | 2021-07-09 08:00:31

Only when having to write code manually do I fully appreciate the awesomeness of autocomplete.

jongleberry | karma 119 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2014-06-17 22:59:41+00:00

If you want a mobile-first, vanilla JS autocomplete implementation: https://github.com/jonathanong/autocomplete

jQueryIsAwesome | karma 903 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2012-12-24 05:44:34+00:00

Please add autocomplete, it would make it so much easier to work with; something like the Chrome console.

shannonbailey78 | karma 3 | avg karma 0.3 · | 2012-12-02 15:18:19+00:00

Awesome feature, this will autocomplete very easy to implement.

winstonewert | karma 920 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2016-06-15 14:28:29

When you have your own javascript driven autocomplete that provides more accurate/context specific suggestions.

mschrage | karma 415 | avg karma 2.99 · | 2021-05-05 19:48:22+00:00

The core focus right now is autocomplete, but this is definitely an area that we want to explore more in the future!

camgunz | karma 5075 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2020-11-05 11:46:31

A lot of stuff is built for autocomplete these days. Hard to say that's not the future of app dev.

Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2017-10-28 02:50:34+00:00

You can do all of that with very lightweight JavaScript though. 10+ years ago I did autocomplete using a few carefully crafted lines of code and the page still renders just fine.

The problem is JS frameworks make development easier but have high real world costs that are often ignored.

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vvoyer | karma 2462 | avg karma 5.85 · | 2021-05-04 20:05:42+00:00

Autocomplete.js is the successor of twitter/typeahead. It's a source-agnostic autocomplete JavaScript library that has just been rewritten to allow for more autocomplete UIs and better stability.

Of course it works with Algolia indexes, but it can also work with any type of asynchronous data sources.

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TarekRaafat | karma 44 | avg karma 8.8 · | 2021-05-29 15:01:13+00:00

The fastest, most powerful autoComplete.js yet!

ricardobeat | karma 18682 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2013-05-16 13:31:55

It's the same as the form autocomplete you already have, only now it can be initiated from js.