React Finder Select

This is a small project whose objective is to supply an effective and easy to use solution for the common problems about the normal html select's, which are little boring and does not let you search inside the options, so if the select has too many options, finding the desired option will be tedious.

The Finder Select lets you set "onClick" and "onChange" functions so you will be able to use the Finder Select as you like. The main Finder Select characteristic is that it provides the user a way to make effective searches inside the select options only writing on the select.

If you want to see how the Finder Select looks/works and compare it with a normal select, you can visit this URL. There we are taking the data asynchronously from an API and then sending them to the select. The example app code is on this repository; in the example folder.

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To install the Finder Select in your app

npm install --save react-finderselect

To use the Finder Select in your app

import React, { Component } from 'react'

import FinderSelect from 'react-finderselect'
import 'react-finderselect/dist/index.css'

const Example = () => {
    return <FinderSelect data={data} label={label} value={value}/>
}

Props:

prop required type description
data true array of objects data that will be used for the options
label true string how is named the label key in the data
value true string how is named the value key in the data
extraInfo false string how is named the extraInfo key in the data
name false string which will be the valueInput name
className false string which will the labelInput class
placeholder false string which will the labelInput placeholder
onClick false function function that will be executed when the user press the labelInput
onChange false function function that will be executed when the user leaves the labelInput

Use example:

const data = [
    {
        name: 'Venezuela',
        capital: 'Caracas',
        code: 'VE'
    },{
        name: 'Peru',
        capital: 'Lima',
        code: 'PE'
    },{
        name: 'Argentina',
        capital: 'Buenos Aires',
        code: 'AR'
    },
    // ...
]

<FinderSelect 
    data={data} 
    label='name' 
    value='code' 
    extraInfo='capital' 
    name='country' 
    className='anyClass' 
    placeholder='Select a country'
    onClick={() => console.log('entering')} 
    onChange={() => console.log('leaving')} 
/>

Example preview:

examplePreview

Recommended CSS (modifiable):

input,
select {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0.375rem 0.75rem;
    border-radius: 7px;
    border: 1px solid;
    border-color: #00000050;
    background: #fff;
    font-size: 1rem
}
input:focus, select:focus {
    border-color: #00000090;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #00000040 inset,
        0 0 4px #00000040;
    outline: 0 none;
}

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