A typeahead/autocomplete component for React

react-typeahead is a javascript library that provides a react-based typeahead, or autocomplete text entry, as well as a "typeahead tokenizer", a typeahead that allows you to select multiple results.

For a typeahead input:

var Typeahead = require('react-typeahead').Typeahead;
React.render(Typeahead({
  options: ['John', 'Paul', 'George', 'Ringo'],
  maxVisible: 2
}));

For a tokenizer typeahead input:

var Tokenizer = require('react-typeahead').Tokenizer;
React.render(Tokenizer({
  options: ['John', 'Paul', 'George', 'Ringo'],
  onTokenAdd: function(token) {
    console.log('token added: ', token);
  }
}));

• Basic Typeahead with Topcoat
• Typeahead Tokenizer with Topcoat
• Typeahead Tokenizer with simple styling

Type: React Component

Basic typeahead input and results list.

Type: Array Default: []

An array supplied to the filtering function.

Type: Number

Limit the number of options rendered in the results list.

Type: Object Allowed Keys: input, results, listItem, listAnchor, hover

An object containing custom class names for child elements. Useful for integrating with 3rd party UI kits.

Type: String

Placeholder text for the typeahead input.

Type: Function

Event handler for the keyDown event on the typeahead input.

Type: Function

Event handler triggered whenever a user picks an option.

Type: Function

A function to filter the provided options based on the current input value. For each option, receives (inputValue, option). If not supplied, defaults to fuzzy string matching.

Type: React Component

Typeahead component that allows for multiple options to be selected.

Type: Array Default: []

An array supplied to the filter function.

Type: Number

Limit the number of options rendered in the results list.

Type: String

The name for HTML forms to be used for submitting the tokens' values array.

Type: Object Allowed Keys: input, results, listItem, listAnchor, typeahead

An object containing custom class names for child elements. Useful for integrating with 3rd party UI kits.

Type: String

Placeholder text for the typeahead input.

Type: Array

A set of values of tokens to be loaded on first render.

Type: Function

Event handler triggered whenever a token is removed.

Type: Function

Event handler triggered whenever a token is removed.

Type: Function

A function to filter the provided options based on the current input value. For each option, receives (inputValue, option). If not supplied, defaults to fuzzy string matching.

You will need npm to develop on react-typeahead. Installing npm.

Once that's done, to get started, run npm install in your checkout directory. This will install all the local development dependences, such as gulp and mocha

react-typeahead uses mocha for unit tests and gulp for running them. Large changes should include unittests.

After updating or creating new tests, run npm run-script build-test to regenerate the test package.

Once that's done, running the tests is easy with gulp:

> gulp test
[00:17:25] Using gulpfile ~/src/react-typeahead/gulpfile.js
[00:17:25] Starting 'test'...


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  15 passing (43ms)

[00:17:25] Finished 'test' after 448 ms
[00:17:25] Starting 'default'...
[00:17:25] Finished 'default' after 6.23 μs

Basically, fork the repository and send a pull request. It can be difficult to review these, so here are some general rules to follow for getting your PR accepted more quickly:

• Break your changes into smaller, easy to understand commits.
• Send separate PRs for each commit when possible.
• Feel free to rebase, merge, and rewrite commits to make them more readible.
• Add comments explaining anything that's not painfully obvious.
• Add unittests for your change if possible.