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Crazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant result
by finack 2y ago
Crazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant results.
- szundi 2y agoCrazy straightforward
- ryanwaggoner 2y agoRetro.
- 10000truths 2y agoIt's possible to make autosuggest performant on poor Internet connections, it just needs a little more thought put into optimizing for it: 1. Debounce! 2. Use WebSockets to minimize unnecessary round trips 3. Cache previous results and use them when the input is a superstring of a previous input (e.g. results for "Android mobile dev" will always be a subset of the results for "mobile dev")