Omnibar

Extensible search component for React.

Demo

The demo can be found in this repository.

Install

$ npm i -S omnibar

Usage

Import the module and your extensions

import Omnibar from 'omnibar';
import Foo from './Foo';
import Bar from './Bar';

Render it in your component

export default function MyComponent() {
  return <Omnibar placeholder="Enter keyword" extensions={[Foo, Bar]} />;
}

Extending your Omnibar

Simple Extension

The example below returns a simple list of items. <Omnibar /> will render an anchor item with the default result item schema.

{
  title: string;
  url: string;
}

export default function FooExtension() {
  return [
    { title: 'Dropbox', url: 'https://dropbox.com' },
    { title: 'GitHub', url: 'https://google.com' },
    { title: 'Facebook', url: 'https://facebook.com' },
  ];
}

Promise-based Results

Extensions can also return a Promise that resolves a list of items.

For example, given an API endpoint https://myapi.com/ that takes a request parameter q, it will return a JSON response like so:

{
  "items": [
    { "name": "foo", "website": "foo.com" },
    { "name": "bar", "website": "bar.com" }
  ]
}

Your extension can return a Promise that resolves into a list of items. The example below makes a request to our fake API endpoint and maps it's data schema with the default anchor schema.

export default function SearchExtension(query) {
    return fetch(`https://myapi.com/?q=${query}`)
        .then(resp => resp.json().items.map(item => ({
            title: item.name,
            url: item.website,
        });

Custom Renderers

If you would like to display additional data in your result listings such as a thumbnail, you can pass a rendering function to the render prop in your <Omnibar /> instance.

The example below changes our result item schema to be in the shape of:

{
  owner: {
    avatar_url: string;
  }
  html_url: string;
  full_name: string;
}

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Omnibar placeholder="Search GitHub" extensions={[GitHub]}>
        {({ item }) => <div>{item.full_name}</div>}
      </Omnibar>
    );
  }
}

Or you can use the render prop to specify your custom component:

function ResultItem({ item }) {
  return (
    <div>
      <img src={item.owner.avatar_url} width={30} height={30} />
      <a href={item.html_url}>{item.full_name}</a>
    </div>
  );
}

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Omnibar
        placeholder="Search GitHub"
        extensions={[GitHub]}
        render={ResultItem}
      />
    );
  }
}

Extension Decorators

command()

The command() helper will wrap your extension through a command prefix and will filter only those matching the command.

Example:

import { command } from 'omnibar';

function MyExtension() {
  return [
    // ...items
  ];
}

export default command(MyExtension, 'foo');

In the above example, MyExtension will be queried only if the user starts their query with the keyword foo.

foo test -> queries extensions
footest -> doesn't query extension
test -> doesn't query extension

Higher Order Components

Extend Your Omnibar

The withExtensions is a HOC factory method to enhance your Omnibar with your own extensions.

Example

import Omnibar, { withExtensions } from 'omnibar';

const GitSearchBar = withExtensions([GitHub])(Omnibar);
const NpmSearchBar = withExtensions([Npm])(Omnibar);
const GlobalSearchBar = withExtensions([GitHub, Npm])(Omnibar);

// renders a GitHub-only search bar
// <GitSearchBar />

// renders a Npm-only search bar
// <NpmSearchBar />

// renders the global search bar (includes GitHub, and Npm)
// <GlobalSearchBar />

This will produce the results below:

// <Omnibar extensions={[GitHub]} {...props} />

// <Omnibar extensions={[Npm]} {...props} />

// <Omnibar extensions={[GitHub, Npm]} {...props} />

Voice Commands

The withVoice is another HOC factory method to enhance your Omnibar with voice recognition using the WebSpeech API.

Note that this is experimental.

Example

import Omnibar, { withVoice } from 'omnibar';

const VoiceBar = withVoice(Omnibar);

// voice-enhanced Omnibar
// <VoiceBar />

// regular Omnibar:
// <Omnibar />

Composing Your Omnibar

Included in the omnibar package is a compose() function that allows you to apply all these nifty features.

Before

const GitVoiceSearch = withVoice(withExtensions([GitHub]))(Omnibar);

After

const GitVoiceSearch = compose(
  withVoice,
  withExtensions([GitHub])
)(Omnibar);

// render
// <GitVoiceSearch />

Props

| Prop | Type | Required? | Description | | :------------------- | :-------------------- | :-------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | autoFocus | boolean | | Optionally make the Omnibar autoFocus. | | children | Function | | Optional rendering function for each result item. Arguments: { item, isSelected, isHighlighted } | | inputDelay | number | | Set an input delay used for querying extensions (Default: 100ms) | | maxResults | number | | The maximum amount of results to display overall. | | maxViewableResults | number | | The maximum amount of results to display in the viewable container (before scrolling). | | onAction | Function | | Apply an action callback when an item is executed. Arguments: item | | onQuery | Function | | Triggered when a query is made | | placeholder | string | | Input placeholder | | render | Function | | Alias of children | | resultStyle | object | | Style object override for the result container | | style | React.CSSProperties | | Style object override for the <input /> element | | value | string | | Optional value to send to the Omnibar. |

Contributing

1. Clone this repository and the website repository.
2. Run npm i or yarn on the omnibar directory.
3. Run npm link on the omnibar directory.
4. Run npm i or yarn on the omnibar-www directory.
5. Run npm link omnibar on the omnibar-www directory.
6. Run npm run dev on the omnibar-www directory.
7. Open https://localhost:8080 in your browser.

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License

MIT © Vu Tran