Typeahead Functionality

Auto-complete search, also known as predictive search, auto-suggest, or typeahead, has been a critical feature for years, especially on e-commerce sites. For example, large product catalogs are hard to search through, especially when the actual names of the products are unknown. An auto-completed search field can help. By suggesting matches upfront, users type less of their search query and find better results immediately.

The difference between an auto-complete form field and a filtered select list is the output they produce. Whereas a filtered select list only allows one of many predefined values, an auto-complete form field allows for any input while suggesting possible inputs that will always yield results.

One way to implement an auto-suggest in a Vue application is vue3-simple-typeahead

Installation and usage

To install vue3-simple-typeahead, we execute npm i -s vue3-simple-typeahead and import its CSS file in main.js. As shown below, we can import the component globally or in whichever component we like: