FYI, the 360KB PNG on your site made me feel like I was back on dialup.
Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
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Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#12The name "Smarty" can be confused with a templating engine (which has the same name).
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#13My company did a fairly thorough review of the open options in this space and settled on select2, which has a handy angular support library here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-select2. This isn't the most performant one (twitter's typeahead was for the ones we looked at) but it has a lot of great features, nice look and feel, and not terrible graceful degradation.
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#14Angular Bootstrap's Typeahead directive does this job pretty well, although we've had to do some template overriding and funky directives to get the functionality we needed (e.g. switching the results to a different set by clicking an item in the dropdown). Glad to see more alternatives being made out there. Nice job!
I too am a fan of the UI Bootstrap typeahead - it's simple, and works nicely. It's not as robust as select2 or whatnot though as you've pointed out.
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#15If you want not use Angular or another other framework, a fully functional autocomplete may be made with 10 lines of JavaScript. See demo: http://www.scriptol.com/javascript/autocomplete.php Adding a scrolling list of choices would requires two or three more lines.
We use Twitter's typeahead (not the one in bootstrap, separate project), pretty pleased with it: http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#16Could do a few things more the Angular way.
- Use ng-keydown on the input field (less overhead than $scope.$watch)
- $http.get has a built in promise. No need to build another one on top of it.
- No need to splice the response, just pass the whole array and use the "limitTo" filter on the results.
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#17If you use PHP, try http://phpautocomplete.com, no javascript is required.
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#18FYI, the 360KB PNG on your site made me feel like I was back on dialup.
Should replace the image with an actual demo. I couldn't find one.
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#19If you want a mobile-first, vanilla JS autocomplete implementation: https://github.com/jonathanong/autocomplete
Re: Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
#20FYI, the 360KB PNG on your site made me feel like I was back on dialup.
Should replace the image with an actual demo. I couldn't find one.
It's used on http://www.thumbtack.com/