instatype

A mobile-friendly React autocomplete component

Demos

unsplash.now.sh (latest) saveyourvines.com

Install

npm install instatype --save

Contribute

npm run example to run the example app with hot loading of instatype source for easy development.

Usage

import React from 'react';
import Instatype from 'instatype';

class Component extends React.Component {

  render() {
    return <Instatype requestHandler={myRequestHandler} selectedHandler={mySelectedHandler}/>;
  }
}

Props

Prop | Description ---------------------------|---------------- placeholder | Placeholder text for input limit | Number of results to show in dropdown thumbStyle | Set result images to "circle" or "square" loadingIcon | Path to custom loading icon requestHandler | Required function that fetches data, adds "image" and "name" properties to each object in the response array, and then passes data back to the instatype component. See an example requestHandler function below. selectedHandler | Required function that is called when a dropdown result is clicked. This will be passed the full object initially used to populate that result in the dropdown.

Example requestHandler

requestHandlerUsers: function(query, limit, callback){

  $.ajax({
    url: "https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    data: {
      client_id: this.props.instagramClientId,
      q: query,
      count: limit
    },
    success: function(data) {
      // Instatype expects an "image" and "name" for each result
      var renamedData = data.data.map(function(result){
        result.image = result.profile_picture;
        result.name = result.username;
        return result;
      });
      
      callback(renamedData);
    }
  });

}